TY - JOUR

T1 - Research Ethics, Open Science and CRIS

AU - Schöpfel, Joachim

AU - Azeroual, Otmane

AU - Jungbauer-Gans, Monika

N1 - Funding information: Foundation, the European Commission, the Dutch Research Council, the Swiss National Science Foundation, EMBO and the French National Research Agency all signed the declaration, along with many research institutes, universities and academic societies. Moreover, they started to change their way of doing evaluation and they report on their examples of good practice in research assessment on the DORA site. This is a challenge for CRIS: how do they cope with these new good practices of research assessment? The relevance of DORA for research information management systems has been mentioned by different authors [43,44] but without any real implication for the data model, the metadata, the semantics or the reporting. An Italian case study on distributed research information management systems reports that the support of DORA by the biological research community may have “mitigated” the impact of a new performance-based funding system on the scientists’ publishing behavior but does not specify the impact on the CRIS itself [45]. The question remains open, to date, if and to what extent new and more qualitative assessment methods are compliant with systems that have been originally designed for traditional metrics. Acknowledgments: A former proposal of this research has been prepared with support from the German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies (DZHW).

PY - 2020/12/1

Y1 - 2020/12/1

N2 - The purpose of this paper is to analyze how current research information systems (CRIS) take into account ethical issues, especially in the environment of open science. The analysis is based on a review of the literature on research information management, CRIS, open science and research ethics. The paper provides a framework for the assessment of CRIS on two levels: are CRIS (= their data model, format, functionalities, etc.) compliant with ethical requirements from the research community, funding bodies, government, etc., i.e., can they appropriately process data on research ethics (protocols, misconduct, etc.), and which are the ethical issues of the development, implementation and usage of CRIS? What is the impact of new ethical requirements from the open science movement, such as integrity or transparency? Can CRIS be considered as ethical infrastructures or “infraethics”? Concluding this analysis, the paper proposes an empirical approach for further investigation of this topic. The originality of the paper is that there are very few studies so far that assess the implications of research ethics and open science on the CRIS.

AB - The purpose of this paper is to analyze how current research information systems (CRIS) take into account ethical issues, especially in the environment of open science. The analysis is based on a review of the literature on research information management, CRIS, open science and research ethics. The paper provides a framework for the assessment of CRIS on two levels: are CRIS (= their data model, format, functionalities, etc.) compliant with ethical requirements from the research community, funding bodies, government, etc., i.e., can they appropriately process data on research ethics (protocols, misconduct, etc.), and which are the ethical issues of the development, implementation and usage of CRIS? What is the impact of new ethical requirements from the open science movement, such as integrity or transparency? Can CRIS be considered as ethical infrastructures or “infraethics”? Concluding this analysis, the paper proposes an empirical approach for further investigation of this topic. The originality of the paper is that there are very few studies so far that assess the implications of research ethics and open science on the CRIS.

KW - Current research information systems (CRIS)

KW - Open science

KW - Research ethics

KW - Research information management

KW - Research management

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85097619265&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.3390/publications8040051

DO - 10.3390/publications8040051

M3 - Article

VL - 8

SP - 1

EP - 11

JO - Publications

JF - Publications

SN - 1323-3580

IS - 4

M1 - 51

ER -