The Hidden Costs of Open Infrastructure

Research materials

As part of our investigation of the hidden costs of open infrastructures we conducted qualitative research with service providers, funders, and institutional budget owners. In this repository, we provide a brief outline of research methods and participants. Additionally, all questions are provided in the /materials folder.

Interviews with services

Representatives from nine services participated in 60min interviews during the period of 11 Oct 2021 until 29 Oct 2021.

Participants

• Crossref's Metadata Retrieval (Crossref)
• The DOI® System (International DOI Foundation)
• DSpace (LYRASIS)
• Mukurtu (Washington State University)
• ORCID
• Open Journal Systems (Public Knowledge Project)
• OSF Preprints (Center for Open Science)
• SciELO
• Zenodo (CERN)

Scripts & Questions

You can find the pre-interview questionnaire here which was conducted using CognitoForms. The full interview script used for each service can be found here.

Focus groups with policy makers

Representatives from five funders and five institutional budget owners participated in 90min focus groups on 22 Oct 2021.

Participants

• Funders
  • Sloan Foundation
  • Mellon Foundation
  • Arcadia
  • Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
  • IMLS
• Institutions
  • Lehigh University
  • UNC Chapel Hill
  • Université de Lorraine/French National Fund for Open Science
  • swissuniversities

Scripts & Questions

The focus group script with questions can be found here.