Can incentives encourage open research practice?

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Can incentives encourage open research practice? Exploring solutions beyond compliance. Academic researchers are pulled in many directions, with teaching, research, administrative duties, and an ever changing sectoral environment leading to larger and larger workloads. In such an environment, introducing new ways of working that come with open research must have clear benefits for the researcher. In this environment, the question of promoting open research practices becomes one of incentives. Today, funders often require open access publication, and some require open data deposits, however these requirements may appear as a stick do this or lose your funding rather than a carrot. Funders, journal editors, and university managers are best placed to offer incentives for…

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