Representative Projects

  • Open Research Funders Group. The Open Research Funders Group (ORFG) is a partnership of funding organizations committed to the open sharing of research outputs. This will benefit society by accelerating the pace of discovery, reducing information-sharing gaps, encouraging innovation, and promoting reproducibility. The ORFG will speak in an amplified voice, and engage a range of stakeholders to develop actionable principles and policies that enable sharing and collaboration across the global research enterprise. Greg Tananbaum co-founded the ORFG and led it for seven years.

  • National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Roundtable on Aligning Incentives for Open Science. The Roundtable, co-created and managed for five years by Greg Tananbaum, is a multiyear project convening critical stakeholders to fundamentally improve the correlation between open practices, credit/reward systems, and research missions & values. It brings together senior leaders from universities, funding agencies, societies, foundations, and industry to discuss incentives for adopting open science practices, current barriers and disincentives, and ways to work with communities and disciplines to develop hiring, review, tenure and promotion, and funding practices that are more reflective of open practices. Over the course of the Roundtable, the members laid out both the “why” - the factors that will influence institutions, agencies, and funders to properly align their credit/reward systems with open science practices - and the “how”, the practical means by which they can do so.

  • Higher Education Leadership Initiative for Open Scholarship (HELIOS). Established by Greb Tananbaum, HELIOS ) is a cohort of 100+ US colleges and universities committed to collective action to advance open scholarship within and across their campuses. Leaders from US colleges and universities have joined this community of practice, working together to promote a more transparent, inclusive, and trustworthy research ecosystem.

  • American Heart Association Open Data Policy. The AHA's requirements covering most research grants awarded by the Association was developed with ScholarNext's guidance and expertise.

  • Pay-It-Forward. Greg Tananbaum served as project manager and co-author for this Mellon-funded modelling of sustainable Open Access Article Processing Charges. The investigation was a joint initiative of the University of California, under the leadership of UC Davis and the California Digital Library (CDL). It included input from three major research libraries (Harvard University, Ohio State University and the University of British Columbia), the ten University of California campus libraries, the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers, Thomson Reuters (Web of Science), and Elsevier (Scopus).

  • NISO Recommended Practice Access and License Indicators. Greg Tananbaum co-chaired this National Information Standards Organization (NISO) effort to standardize bibliographic metadata describing the accessibility and licensing terms of journal articles.

  • How Open Is It? Guide to the Components of Open Access. This guide, devised by ScholarNext on behalf of PLOS and SPARC, moves the conversation from “Is It Open Access?” to “How Open Is It?”. It illustrates a nuanced continuum of more versus less open. This enables users to compare and contrast publications and policies across a grid of clearly defined components related to readership, reuse, copyright, author and automatic posting, and machine readability.

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