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Journal articles have been the gold standard for research and scholarly communication. Specifically, measurements of publication and citation, particularly in high-impact journals, have long been the key means of accruing credit for researchers. In turn, these credits become the currency through which researchers acquire funding and achieve professional success. But, like global trade, tying in to a fixed standard limits wealth distribution and innovation. It is time for the research community to attribute credit for contributions that reflect and drive collaborative innovation, rewarding behaviors that produce better research outcomes.

This is a critical moment in the open science landscape. Over the past few years there has been growing momentum to improve open research policies and require grantees to share all research outputs, from datasets to code to protocols, in FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable [FAIR]) repositories with persistent identifiers attached. The Aligning Science Across Parkinsons (ASAP) initiative has made substantial investments in improving open science compliance monitoring for its grantees, requiring grantees to update their manuscripts if not all research outputs have been linked in the initial manuscript version. Here, we evaluate ASAPs effectiveness in improving research output sharing for all articles processed through the ASAP compliance workflow between March 1, 2022, and October 1, 2022. Our ultimate goal in sharing our findings is to assist other funders and institutions as they consider open science implementation. By normalizing the open science and compliance process across funding bodies, we hope to simplify and streamline researcher, institutional, and funder workflows, allowing researchers to focus on science by easily leveraging resources and building upon the work of others.

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The publishing world is weighed down by print-centric legacy workflows, siloed technology, manual processes, and vendor lock-in. It is easy for publishers to feel that meeting demands to be experimental in terms of business models, editorial processes and content types while also becoming more efficient and reducing costs is nearby impossible. Funders, institutions and researchers are asking for more transparency and openness in the publishing process and, while publishers may agree in principle, getting there poses significant operational and technological challenges. Other industries have reinvented themselves by collaborating on shared infrastructure, acknowledging that the foundational layers of their operations are not where the competitive advantages lie. By embracing a collaborative mindset, scholarly publishers can achieve more while simultaneously reducing cost and time-to-publication. Community-built open source is one such method of building new, shared infrastructure. The Collaborative Knowledge (Coko) Foundation is leading projects to create new platform technologies and workflows that can significantly streamline publishing, giving publishers opportunities to address challenges and industry demands. Importantly, we consider what it takes for publishers to truly collaborate; and how an adjustment of mindset and structure is needed to maximize the effectiveness of a new kind of open source for scholarly communications.