For the first time this annual report is supplemented by four perspectives, one co-authored by key members of TIER2

Published by Digital Science, Figshare and Springer Nature, The State of Open Data is the longest-running longitudinal analysis of researchers' attitudes towards and experiences of open data. Its latest release, State of Open Data Report 2023, provides valuable insights based on 6,091 survey responses, and also offers some recommendations on actions that need to be taken to better support the research community.

For the first time in its nine-year history, a supplementary report has been published on 5 March 2024, with case studies and commentaries told from the perspective of research stakeholder groups: From theory to practice: Case studies and commentary from libraries, publishers, funders and industry. These are real-world insights into how these stakeholders are working to address data sharing challenges, operationalise data policy, and support researchers.

Members of TIER2, including Advisory Board member Catriona MacCallum (Wiley), our principal investigator coordinator Tony Ross-Hellauer (Know-Center, Graz University of Technology) and co-PI Susanna-Assunta Sansone (University of Oxford), contributed heavily to the article “Operationalize data policies through collaborative approaches - the momentum is now.”

In the piece, the authors emphasise the need for multi-stakeholder collaboration to increase levels of data-sharing. The piece highlights a range of initiatives from RDA, FAIRSharing, STM Association, and others including TIER2. We especially spotlight TIER2’s upcoming Pilots with publishers to co-create and assess new interventions for increasing data availability in published work and workflows for enhanced editorial checks on key reproducibility-related factors. 

More information on these Pilots is included in our recently published report on our first co-creation workshop with publishers.