Using iris.ai
Update: We decided to use the tool iris.ai. "Iris.ai’s Explore and Focus tools semi-automate the research landscape mapping – speeding up the literature discovery and review phase of your research process." (
https://iris.ai/university-solutions/)
To use the tool a clear research question and a statement must be formulated that describes the research project as precisely as possible. The text should have between 300 and 500 words. An algorithm is then used to search through the open access papers and create a list of possible hits. These are then sorted into clusters to provide an initial overview. In a second step, papers and topics can be selected in iterative steps in order to obtain the best possible sample.
Research question: We are interested in how do lecturers at universities teach Open Science?
Statement (max. 500 words)
“Open Science represents a new approach to the scientific process based on cooperative work and new ways of diffusing knowledge by using digital technologies and new collaborative tools. Open Science is about extending the principles of openness to the whole research cycle, fostering sharing and collaboration as early as possible thus entailing a systemic change to the way science and research is done. Open Science is frequently defined as an umbrella term that involves various movements aiming to remove the barriers for sharing any kind of output, resources, methods or tools, at any stage of the research process. As such, open access to publications, open research data, open source software, open collaboration, open peer review, open notebooks, open educational resources, open monographs, citizen science, or research crowdfunding, fall into the boundaries of Open Science.”
We want to know which aspects of Open Science lectures teach in their classes at universities. Are there any differences between disciplines and fields? We also want to know whether lectures link the open science aspects to the principles of the open scholarship. The principles of Open Scholarship are transparency, accountability, inclusivity, responsibility, community and collaboration, visibility, rigour, equality, public good, reproducibility, findability, accessibility, interoperability, re-usablity and innovation. Of particular interest is how teachers incorporate the aspects and principles of Open Science into their teaching. Which pedagogical methods do they use, what motivation is behind them and which tools are considered useful (e.g. blogs, wikis)?