Two Leiden projects have been awarded Open Science NL funding to make science more accessible to academia and the world outside. The projects will strengthen the open science infrastructure: from the efficient reuse of biomedical data to a new publication model.
An impressive 45 projects in the Netherlands have been awarded funding, and researchers from Leiden are working on many of these. The projects will all make scholarly data, software and publications more accessible. The lead applicants of two projects are from Leiden: one from Leiden University and the other from the LUMC.
Biomedical datasets
Marian Beekman, Leiden University Medical Center
Retrospective FAIRification by complementation of metadata and interoperability (RetroFAIR). Sum awarded: 250,000 euros.
Longitudinal studies with rich data from various sources are invaluable for biomedical research. Datasets, such as questionnaires, physical and molecular measurements and scans, have often been collected over a long period of time without using FAIR principles. These principles state that data should, for example, be findable, accessible and reusable. This project will develop tutorials, tools and access procedures to help biomedical researchers retrospectively FAIRify older datasets. This will facilitate the efficient and responsible reuse of precious biomedical data that cannot be reobtained.
New publication model
Ludo Waltman, Leiden University
Next-generation publishing: Advancing the publish-review-curate model. Sum awarded: 1.44 million euros.
This project will accelerate the transition to open science by enabling Dutch research communities to implement and adopt the publish-review-curate (PRC) model for open scholarly communication. The project focuses on creating user-friendly PRC workflows supported by interoperable infrastructures, making it easy for research communities to use PRC. Existing PRC infrastructures will be used and adapted where needed. By setting up PRC workflows in close collaboration with research communities and institutions, the project will support broad adoption and strengthen the long-term embedding of PRC in the scholarly communication landscape in the Netherlands.
Open Science NL is the national programme that aims to promote and accelerate the transition to open science in the Netherlands. In total, 25 smaller projects will receive grants of up to 250,000 euros and 20 large projects will each receive up to 1.5 million euros.
