This virtual presentation designed for researchers and supporting staff will highlight the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), which is a global initiative established to encourage improvement in the ways in which researchers, and the outputs of scholarly research, are evaluated. DORA covers all scholarly disciplines and all key stakeholders including funders, publishers, professional societies, institutions and researchers. The full DORA declaration can be read here: https://sfdora.org/read/

Over 25,000 institutions and individuals globally have signed DORA, including major Canadian funders such as NSERC, CIHR, SSHRC, CFI and Genome Canada. Just last week, the Presidents of the granting councils announced that they will be gradually transitioning to a new narrative-style tri-agency CV for all competitions, confirming their adherence to DORA principles.

This session, presented by Kelly Cobey, co-chair of DORA, will provide an overview of the organization, why it is important, who has signed on as a partner, what this means for Canadian researchers, the complexity of change and the reforming of research assessments in institutions.

About the presenter:

Dr. Kelly Cobey is a scientist at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute. She advocates for transparency in scientific publishing, particularly open science implementation. She serves as the director of the Metaresearch and Open Science Program and is an associate professor in the School of Epidemiology and Public Health. Dr. Cobey’s work focuses on improving the reproducibility of research and addressing issues like publication bias, sub-optimal data management and predatory publishing. She is a frequent speaker and educator on responsible conduct in research and evidence-based publishing practices. She is co-chair of DORA. Dr. Cobey sits on a number of national and international committees, including the CCA panel of Dual-Use Research. She was recently honoured by Nature and Sense About Science for her advocacy work to improve the research ecosystem.

To register for this session, please email vprfeedback@mun.ca and receive log-in instructions.

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Location: Virtual

Date and Time: Thursday, Nov. 28 at 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (NST)

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