How to best convince scholars to open their science. Leading by example?

How to best convince scholars to open their science. Leading by example? Henrik Spoon Cornell University Santiago de Chile Nov 2025 I am an accidental librarian •Astronomer by training •Studied colliding galaxies in infrared light Physics, Astronomy and Mathematics Librarian at Cornell University since 2018 •Have I been hanging out too much with Uta while at ESO 1999-2001? ESO La Silla 2001 Original plan was: •Discuss what I have learned from teaching a workshop “From Telescope to DOI: Sharing and Publishing Your Research Data” to graduate students in astronomy •Leveraging my own published astrophysical data sets (1994-2022) New plan is: •Lay out my goals for that workshop •Hear from you what you would do differently •Report the launch of the Cornell University Research Data Community on Zenodo Goals for the graduate student workshop “From Telescope to DOI: Sharing and Publishing Your Research Data” •Learn why we should share our research data and code: •Supports reuse, scientific integrity •Some funders and journals require it •Learn how the lack of metadata affects discoverability and reusability •Learn how standardized formatting of data is important for interoperability (CDS, NED, ADS) •Learn about the benefits of data sharing to the author: •Sharing data increases your credibility and citations to your works •Where does your published data get ingested? CDS, NED, …. •Where does your shared data get indexed? ADS (from CDS), ADS (from trusted Zenodo communities), Google Scholar, Web Of Science, Scopus •Central roles of DOIs and ORCIDs •Best practices for creating a README file •What metadata to create •Learn where to publicly share/publish your research data and code: •Zenodo (community) •Institutional repository •GitHub •Your (departmental) website Challenges for this workshop •Some graduate students have not yet published •Other graduate students have published and have navigated journal/funder demands  there needs to be something new to learn for all •Funder mandates and FAIR practices add to scholars’ workloads: how to motivate them to make the effort?  Lead by example  Showcase data set from grads who followed best practices •45-60 minutes may not suffice to cover all aspects Available since 1994 ! Your ORCID: it’s more than an ID •Unique personal persistent identifier •Allows you to claim credit for your research output no matter how common your name is •Offer an ORCID tune-up: •add “trusted partners”: •To ingest publicly shared data sets into your record (DataCite.org) •To ingest publicly shared code from GitHub into your record •add other works that are were not found •Who is using your ORCID ? •Journals •National research agencies •Funding agencies •Your institute •Elsevier’s Scopus •Clarivate’s Web of Science How do you describe your data deposit at Zenodo? Title √ ORCIDs √ RORs incomplete Description √ README √ Files √ Related works √ Funding √ Software √ Versioned √ Improvements were made to this data set In a community √ The AAS community provides curation service License √ DOI √ Cornell University Research Data Community on Zenodo •Offers curation service to Cornell depositors •Launched on October 21 •Currently advertised only to members of the Astronomy Department •“Curation policy” and “About” statements adapted from Ghent University Research Data Community on Zenodo •Requested to become trusted partner of ADS for data indexing purposes