Collaboratory Landscape

Open Access, Open Research, Open Science

Open access (OA) refers to freely available, digital, online information. Open access scholarly literature is free of charge and often carries less restrictive copyright and licensing barriers than traditionally published works, for both the users and the authors.

Cornell University

What is open research?

Open research comprises openness throughout the research cycle, through collaborative working and sharing and making research methodology, software, code and equipment freely available online, along with instructions for using it. Open research includes making publications freely available online (open access), in addition to the underlying research data (open data).

University of Exeter

What is open science?

Open Science is a collection of actions designed to make scientific processes more transparent and results more accessible. Its goal is to build a more replicable and robust science; it does so using new technologies, altering incentives, and changing attitudes.

Open Science Foundation

UVA Landscape

3Cavaliers

The program provides seed funding for research involving three UVA faculty members – at least two of whom must be from different academic disciplines.

Data Science Collaboratories

Through a network of collaboratories—research groups crossing disciplinary boundaries to use the power of data science to advance every field—we are creating an interdisciplinary ecosystem of people, ideas, and infrastructure.

Environmental Institute

UVA’s Environmental Resilience Institute links research to action to find solutions for climate and environmental resilience challenges. ERI fosters collaboration, providing support for new projects as well as amplifying and connecting work conducted across Grounds. ERI creates opportunities for the next generation of leaders to engage with some of the toughest environmental futures challenges through interdisciplinary research and practical experiences. ERI builds external partnerships to connect research and discovery with real world solutions.

Global Media Cultures Collaboratory

Since media studies began in the 1970s, its object of study has changed in fundamental ways. Media were, at first, thought almost wholly within the frame of the nation-state, its national politics and culture. Since then, the diffusion of continuing technological innovations, driven by the world economy, has changed the media landscape beyond recognition, producing the digital and globalized world that we inhabit today.

Situated within this larger frame, the Global Media Cultures Collaboratory will bring together scholars with a shared interest in the rise of digital and mobile media technologies, the ongoing transformation of established media industries, and emergent forms of media practice and use that are reconfiguring socio-cultural, political, and economic terrains across the Global South.

Link Lab

Opened in January 2018, the Link Lab at UVA Engineering is a world-class center of excellence in cyber-physical systems. The Lab consists of more than 250 faculty and graduate students from multiple departments and conducts pioneering work in Robotics & Autonomous Vehicles, Smart and Connected Health, Hardware for IoT, and Smart Cities. Prioritizing impact on real-world problems, Link Lab partners with industry to tackle the most critical questions at the intersection of the cyber and physical worlds.

Tools & Services at UVA

Coordination of Large Collaborative Proposals

The Proposal Development Unit in the Office for the Vice President for Research focuses on development of large, multi-investigator, multi-School proposals to federal grant programs.

Proposal Management for large, cross-disciplinary proposals
Development of timelines, templates, and general knowledge for various components of the application
Serving as a liaison or point-of-contact

Open Access Guidelines

The School of Data Science at the University of Virginia has endorsed a set of open access guidelines that help to guide faculty in satisfying the promotion and tenure requirements of open scholarship. Those guidelines are publicly available, and have been endorsed (in a very slightly modified form, as non-binding, aspirational good practice) by the UVA faculty senate, as well.

Pan-University Institutes

For any inquiries contact Cheryl Wagner, cheryl-vpr@virginia.edu

Report a Barrier

The University of Virginia is committed to equal access and the civil rights of people with disabilities. Barriers to this access may include things such as an inaccessible website, an inoperative elevator, a blocked access ramp, video without captions, or other lack of access to an event or program.

Barriers to this access may include things such as:

an inaccessible website,
an inoperative elevator,
a blocked access ramp,
video without captions,
or other lack of access to an event or program.

Research Collaboration Corner

The Research Collaboration Corner is an inspiring and catalytic meeting place in the historic Corner Building at the entrance to the University, designed to enhance collaborations among small and large groups from the university community at all levels with a vision to promote excellence in research, scholarship, and entrepreneurship.

Examples include:

Students collaborations
Research meetings among Pan-University Institute participants to discuss new ideas and review progress
Meetings of participants in the various 3 Cavaliers projects to exchange ideas and mentor students
Research development activities that involve convening researchers across Grounds to learn about new opportunities
Meetings that help promote the integration of research with education and community engagement

UVACollab

UVACollab partners with faculty, staff, and students in the work that sustains the Academical Village—engaging in interactive discussions, joining virtual meetings, securely storing and sharing materials, and much more.

Workflows for Open Scholarship

The School of Data Science at the University of Virginia has adopted a recommended workflow for open scholarship that helps faculty understand how to make their work open at each step in a typical research project lifecycle. The workflow lives on an internal site as it’s being developed and tested, and will be made available widely.

Team Science - UVA

Team Science Fundamentals

Putting the Team in Team Science

Institutional Support for Team Science

WEBSITES

TRAINING

CONFERENCES

VIDEOS

Team Science Resources for Students

Playing for “Team Science”: Tips for students
Intramural Research Training Opportunities: A flyer for students is here
CTSI Education and Training

Global Landscape

VentureWell

We envision a world in which science and technology innovators have the support, training, and access to networks and resources they need to solve the world’s most difficult problems.

OpenResearch

OpenResearch is a non-profit research lab

We fund work that requires a very long time horizon, seeks to answer open-ended questions, or develops technology that shouldn’t be owned by any one company.

Ronin Institute

The Ronin Institute’s mission is to provide an academic community for people who are committed to truth and empathy.

protocols.io

A secure platform for developing and sharing reproducible methods.

Creative Commons

CC is an international nonprofit organization that empowers people to grow and sustain the thriving commons of shared knowledge and culture we need to address the world’s most pressing challenges and create a brighter future for all.

Open Research Institute

Open Research Institute, Inc. (ORI) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) research and development organization which provides all of its work to the general public under the principles of Open Source and Open Access to Research.

ACS Publications

ACS Transformative Agreements help your institution sustainably support the transition to open science by growing the amount of work your researchers publish in open access formats, while also providing full access to ACS subscription content. Authors at hundreds of institutions worldwide benefit from ACS Transformative Agreements each year.

OpenAccess Scholarly Publishing Association

Representing a diverse community of organisations engaged in open scholarship, OASPA works to encourage and enable open access as the predominant model of communication for scholarly outputs.

Center for Open Science

Our mission is to increase openness, integrity, and reproducibility of research.

SPARC

The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition is a non-profit advocacy organization that supports systems for research and education that are open by default and equitable by design.

Helios

The Higher Education Leadership Initiative for Open Scholarship (HELIOS) is a cohort of colleges and universities committed to collective action to advance open scholarship within and across their campuses. Leaders from US colleges and universities have joined this community of practice, working together to promote a more transparent, inclusive, and trustworthy research ecosystem.