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Engage in open science and open scholarship
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Duke is committed to a culture of open science and open scholarship to ensure transparency and accountability in research. This commitment involves making scientific processes, data, analyses, and publications as accessible as possible. This page contains information on best practices, and resources for sharing research data, publications, and other outputs.
Software and Code Sharing
Similar to data sharing, Duke encourages an environment of open sharing of software and code that are created as research outputs. However, there may be requirements or limitations for sharing software and code based on funder requirements or other collaborative agreements. The NOA or the appropriate grants or contracts specialist should be consulted to ensure compliance with any code sharing requirements:
- Commercial or Industry funded studies: contact marti.salguero@duke.edu
- Government or foundation funded studies in the SoM or SoN: contact SOM-RA.AMT@dm.duke.edu
- Government or foundation funded studies in the Provost Area or Campus Schools: contact campusAMT@duke.edu
Duke provides an institutional license to GitLab, which is an open source code sharing repository. For assistance with utilizing GitLab or to explore alternative options for software and code sharing, contact Research Computing or the Center for Data and Visualization Sciences.
Publishing in open access journals
Open access (OA) is the practice of providing unrestricted access via the Internet to peer-reviewed scholarly research. It is most commonly applied to scholarly journal articles, but it is also increasingly being provided to theses, scholarly monographs and book chapters. Open access enables greater research impact and broader dissemination of findings by reducing barriers to access for other researchers, stakeholders, and members of the community.
Many researchers choose to publish their articles in open access journals or to publish their articles as open access within a traditional journal.
The libraries at Duke support programs that waive or discount article processing charges (APCs) with several publishers, including PLOS. See more information at both the Duke University Libraries and the Medical Center Library.
Open access policies
Several funders, including the NIH and NSF, require investigators to make research findings publicly available through specific repositories and programs.
- The NIH public access policy requires researchers to submit final peer-reviewed journal manuscripts that arise from NIH funds to PubMed Central immediately upon acceptance for publication. See the Medical Center Library website for more information.
- The NSF public access policy requires publications from NSF sponsored research to be submitted to the NSF Public Access Repository.
In a commitment to open scholarship, the Duke University open access policy requires all scholarly articles authored by Duke faculty to be made freely available on the article repository site, DukeSpace. The Duke ScholarWorks website provides more information and resources regarding the open access policy.