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Elizabeth Kittrie
* E-mail: [email protected] (EK); [email protected] (PEB)
Affiliation: National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
Audie A. Atienza
Affiliation: ICF, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
Robert Kiley
Affiliation: Wellcome Trust, London, England, United Kingdom
David Carr
Affiliation: Wellcome Trust, London, England, United Kingdom
Aki MacFarlane
Affiliation: Wellcome Trust, London, England, United Kingdom
Vinay Pai
Affiliation: National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
Jennifer Couch
Affiliation: National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
Jared Bajkowski
Affiliation: Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
Joseph F. Bonner
Affiliation: National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
Daniel Mietchen
Affiliation: University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America
Philip E. Bourne
* E-mail: [email protected] (EK); [email protected] (PEB)
Affiliation: University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America
ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7618-7292Abstract
The Open Science Prize was established with the following objectives: first, to encourage the crowdsourcing of open data to make breakthroughs that are of biomedical significance; second, to illustrate that funders can indeed work together when scientific interests are aligned; and finally, to encourage international collaboration between investigators with the intent of achieving important innovations that would not be possible otherwise. The process for running the competition and the successes and challenges that arose are presented.
Citation: Kittrie E, Atienza AA, Kiley R, Carr D, MacFarlane A, Pai V, et al. (2017) Developing international open science collaborations: Funder reflections on the Open Science Prize. PLoS Biol 15(8): e2002617. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2002617
Published: August 1, 2017
This is an open access article, free of all copyright, and may be freely reproduced, distributed, transmitted, modified, built upon, or otherwise used by anyone for any lawful purpose. The work is made available under the Creative Commons CC0 public domain dedication.
Funding: The author(s) received no specific funding for this work.
Competing interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Abbreviations: HHMI, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; NIH, National Institutes of Health; OSP, Open Science Prize; WT, Wellcome Trust
Provenance: Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed
Introduction
Open data and open science can confer benefits to researchers, including increases in citation, media attention, and potential collaborations [1]. While open access to scientific publications has increasingly...