suggest extension to material sharing policies

[zebraelement]

Hello from OpenCon! I met up with @npscience during the OpenCon do-a-thon and I would like to potentially add material sharing policies to the TRANSPOSE-publishing database.

To give you more context, I've started working on a project to engage in conversations with journals and publishers to discuss the possibility of updating their material sharing policies to recommend specific reagent repositories, much like how Data sharing journal policies are recommending specific data and code repositories. The goal is that by recommending authors to make their research materials available through different non-profit repositories, journals can help to ensure timely distribution of materials and improve scientific reproducibility.

My colleagues and I at Addgene have started collecting material sharing policies for several journals (so far we've documented ~75 policies). Would it be possible to add material sharing policies to the TRANSPOSE-publishing database? I realize that it may not be compatible with the new googleforms format of contributing, but would like to explore this possibility. Thanks so much!

[dhimmel]

Nice to hear that the OpenCon do-a-thon got you brainstorming!

Would it be possible to add material sharing policies to the TRANSPOSE-publishing database?

I am not sure whether this falls within TRANSPOSE's intended scope, but perhaps.

Let's tag @jpolka and @npscience for this.

[jpolka]

Thanks @zebraelement (& @dhimmel)!

This is a great initiative. I'd be curious to hear more about what kind of info you're collecting (I assume this includes the text of policies, the url...are you also breaking the policies into certain groups or looking for certain requirements?) As I think we've discussed, this does sound TOP-like as well, which leads me to wonder if there is a data collection initiative attached to the guidelines? We should, at a minimum, ensure our data are interoperable, but maybe we can consider extending the framework as well.

I'll put this on the agenda for our next meeting!