Communicty Consultations: Open Science Buy-In Project at SFU

The Open Science Buy-In Project at SFU is headed into its community consultation phase. We are now inviting SFU community members from all academic disciplines, at all levels, to provide feedback and help shape open science at SFU.

How to Get Involved

Your input on the Open Science Draft Principles is crucial to ensuring that the guiding principles for open science at SFU reflect the needs of our community. Get involved by participating in town halls, in-depth focus groups, or give us feedback via survey or email.

Upcoming Town Halls

Participate in person or virtually via Zoom:

Wednesday, January 24

2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Vancouver Campus, HC1415
Register

Thursday, January 25
10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Burnaby Campus, ASB10900 (Big Data Hub)
Register

Wednesday, January 31
10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Surrey Campus, SRYC 2750
Register

For more ways to participate, visit the Open Science Draft Principles webpage.

About the Draft Principles

The Open Science Principles will set the foundation for an Open Science Framework for SFU, defining what it will mean for SFU to be an "Open Science University." The draft principles serve as a starting point for broader community consultations and have been developed with guidance from the Open Science Working Group in collaboration with the Open Science Principles Drafting Committee. We invite you to review the draft Open Science Principles (also attached) and help us shape the future of open scholarship at SFU.  

About the Open Science Project

Funded by the Tanenbaum Open Science Institute, Buy-In Projects enable institutes to assess their needs, establish their guiding principles and develop an implementation plan to support their commitment to open science. SFU’s Buy-In Project considers open science as a research practice that makes scholarly knowledge accessible to—and beneficial for—all. In this way, our project defines open science within the broader practice of open scholarship so that it includes all scholarly disciplines, from all eight faculties.  

SFU is already engaged in many open scholarship initiatives, including open access publishing, open educational resources and open infrastructures. The Open Science Buy-In Project builds upon these existing initiatives to bring open scholarship at SFU together within an Open Science Framework. Its first goal is to develop a set of guiding principles that set the foundations for what it will mean for SFU to be an “Open Science University”.

Your input is crucial to ensuring that the guiding principles for open science at SFU reflect the needs of our community. Get involved by participating in townhalls, in-depth focus groups, or give us feedback via survey or email.