VOICES: The Value of Openness, Inclusion, Communication, and Engagement for Science in a post-pandemic world

虽然新型冠状病毒大流行的影响在很大程度上是负面的，在许多情况下是灾难性的，但新型冠状病毒也为我们开展、交流和参与科学的方式带来了一些积极的变化。越来越多的研究成果被公开分享，预印本的使用、研究数据共享和科学的公共传播，特别是在主流媒体上，都在逐步增加。这些变化有可能促进一种更加开放和包容的研究和学术方法，并增强我们应对当前和未来社会挑战的能力-但前提是这些变化在大流行之后持续存在。为了更好地了解这一转变对一个更具弹性和知情的社会的长期影响，该项目寻求调查和分享新的经验证据，证明在大流行期间和之后向其他学者和公众开放科学的价值。它汇集了一支在开放科学、学术和科学传播以及研究影响方面具有互补专业知识的跨国学者团队，探讨了大流行和大流行后时期的三个主要问题：1）开放科学的价值如何讨论和定位？2)谁采用或促进了开放科学实践，以及如何？研究的开放对研究与公众的关系有何影响？这个跨国团队将使用一个新的理论框架，将开放研究和公共科学传播视为相互关联的沿着连续的访问，将采用社会科学和信息科学的定量和定性方法相结合，以证明科学传播中开放，包容和公平的长期价值，同时警告任何障碍和有害影响。

While the coronavirus pandemic's impacts have been largely negative, and in many instances catastrophic, Covid-19 also served to bring about some positive changes in the way we carry out, communicate, and engage with science. More research has been shared openly, with a progressive increase in the use of preprints, research data sharing, and public communication of science, particularly in mainstream media. These changes have the potential to foster a more open and inclusive approach to research and scholarship and to bolster our capacity to face present and future societal challenges - but only if the changes persist beyond the pandemic. To better understand the long-term impacts of this shift for a more resilient and informed society, this project seeks to investigate and share new empirical evidence of the value of opening science, to other scholars and to the public, during and beyond the pandemic. It brings together a transnational team of scholars with complementary expertise in open science, scholarly and science communication, and research impact, to examine three main questions in the context of the pandemic and post-pandemic period: 1) How is the value of open science discussed and positioned? 2) Who adopted or contributed to open science practices and how? and 3) How has the relationship between research and the public been affected by the opening of research? Using a novel theoretical framework that considers open research and public science communication as interconnected along a continuum of access, this transnational team will employ a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods from social and information sciences to demonstrate the long-term value of openness, inclusion, and equity in the communication of science, while warning against any barriers and pernicious effects.