Pfeiffer "Secrets to Changing Behavior in Scholarly Communication: A 2025 NISO Training Series, Session One"

Pfeiffer "Secrets to Changing Behavior in Scholarly Communication: A 2025 NISO Training Series, Session One"

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  Secrets to Changing Behaviorin Scholarly Communication A 2025 NISO Training Series Session One
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  About Center forOpen Science Non-profit organization, founded in 2013 Mission: Increase the openness, integrity, and reproducibility of research. Purpose: Changing the culture of scholarship Strategy: Take a systems approach to culture change
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  Systems Approach toResearch Culture Change COS Theory of Change Make it Required Make it Normative Make it Possible Make it Rewarding Make it Easy
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  4 Diffusion of Innovations;Rogers, 1963 2.5% 13.5% 34% 34% 16% Innovators Early adopters Early majority Late majority Laggards
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  INTERVENTION #1 REGISTERED REPORTS
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  IMPACT ● Study ofpublished findings found that they most could not be replicated. ● Headlines of a crisis ● Indication of bias in publication, among other gaps ● Call for change in research practices https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2015.18248 6
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  INTERVENTION ● Infrastructure: Makeit possible for authors to submit research for peer review before collecting data ● User experience: Make it easy by streamlining it within the article submission process ● Incentives: Align the incentives of publication with the values of the researchers by focusing on the research question and study design and not the results Source: https://www.cos.io/initiatives/registered-reports 7
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  MARKETING ● Coordinated effortto conduct outreach to journals to gain early adopters to make it possible ● Educational campaigns to encourage adoption ● Align funding with publication through special issues and funding proposal calls ● Provide resources, training, and webinars Source: https://osf.io/3wct2/wiki/Journal%20Responses/ 8
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  INTERVENTION #2 PREREGISTRATION
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  IMPACT ● More replicationstudies done across disciplines ● MORE Headlines of a crisis ● Call for change in research practices ● Prevent publication bias, p-hacking, and lack of trust in science ● Increase rigor, transparency, and reproducibility of research https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2015.18248 10
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  INTERVENTION ● Infrastructure: Makeit possible ● User experience: Make it easy by ● Incentives: Align the incentives Source: https://www.cos.io/initiatives/prereg 11
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  MARKETING ● Building offof the crisis to offer solutions ● Made it competitive with a Preregistration Challenge to get Idealists to try it ● Awareness campaigns and community story-telling ● Provide room for feedback and iteration ● Community grassroots and advocacy efforts ● Partnerships to publish (Registered Reports) and try out as policy (funders) Source: https://www.cos.io/blog/preregistration-plan-not-prison and https://www.cos.io/blog/prereg-for-research-communities 12
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  CONCLUSIONS Are there anySECRETS to changing behavior in Scholarly Communication? ● It has to be possible to do the new practice or behavior ● Must be easy to start doing something new; otherwise won’t do it or sustain it ● Communities are access points for driving change ● People need to know what’s in it for them ● Some will do it kicking and screaming Interventions are a way to identify one or more of these secrets and tap into them to catalyze change
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  Get in Touch! Wantto learn more? [email protected] Cos.io OSF.io 0000-0001-8335-6018