In the second episode of this four-part series, our guests examine the impacts of open research on scholarly communication. First, Jamie Hutchins, Director of Open Research, Americas at Taylor & Francis, shares the potential of open research to advance scholarship’s societal impact and build back trust in academia. Next, Jamie surfaces the idea of redefining what constitutes as “data,” especially in a humanities context. Natya Hans, Informatics and Reproducibility Librarian in the Academic Research and Consulting Services Department at University of Florida, and Emily McElroy, Vice President of Academic Relations at Taylor & Francis, discuss further how humanities data can support interdisciplinary research and the challenges presented by the lack of standardized data formatting guidelines. Last, our guests reflect on how the OSTP Nelson Memo has influenced the awareness of open research and the importance of and current roadblocks to research reproducibility.

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