Discovery Through Open Collaborative Research
Our mission is to accelerate the pace and accuracy of scientific discovery through open, equitable and collaborative practices. As a 501(c)(3) fiscal sponsor, Rapid Science connects and strategizes with organizations offering real-world solutions that transform vision to policies and practices.
Sharing Early, Often, Widely
Rapid Science and collaborators seek to create, test, and coordinate solutions that demonstrate to funders and academic institutions the value of sharing research ideas and outcomes early, often, and widely. This recognition is critical for transforming today’s journal-based incentives that induce competition to one that rewards researchers for open behaviors and reproducible results.
Sharing Early, Often, Widely
Rapid Science and collaborators seek to create, test, and coordinate solutions that demonstrate to funders and academic institutions the value of sharing research ideas and outcomes early, often, and widely. This recognition is critical for transforming today’s journal-based incentives that induce competition to one that rewards researchers for open behaviors and reproducible results.
Studying, Implementing, Rewarding
ICOR: Studying Open Scholarship
Incentivizing Collaboration and Open Research is a community-based organization connecting projects that contribute to a growing library of evidence, standards, and best practices. The governing group seeks funds and assists projects in evidence-based project design, refining and promoting what works on a practical scale.
Stratos: Implementing Open Scholarship
Strategies for Open Science designs and implements solutions to increase the speed, transparency, and impact of scholarly research. It assists partnering organizations with strategic planning and the means of adopting or building technologies that will bring about the transformation to open practices.
DataSeer: Tracking Data in Open Scholarship
By using AI and natural language processing, DataSeer scans scientific texts for descriptions of data collection, then gives best-practice advice for sharing that type of data. It helps researchers ensure that their data sharing is complete and follows best practice, while funders, journals, and institutions can employ it to find all of the data associated with a corpus of articles.
The C-Score Suite: Incentivizing Collaborative Scholarship
Under the Rapid Science umbrella, the Collaboration Score was developed to measure and reward collaboration in trans-disciplinary and multi-institutional team science. Supporting these endeavors are schemas involving workspace infrastructure, editorial facilitation, and living narratives of ongoing research.