Abstract
In this first annual review of Open Science practices, we highlight the range of outputs produced by researchers within the Climate Compatible Growth programme. We define practices as the skills and tools that enable compliance with the concept of Open Science including the FAIR principles and the u4RIA goals. We emphasize the importance of good enough practices and the need to avoid binary connotations of best practice . Our review identifies a clear distinction between continually developed living outputs , such as datasets, tools and methods, and teaching materials, and published final outputs , such as journal articles, blog posts and software releases. There are a range of open-science practices that are shared within these two categories of outputs. We recommend the adoption of a range of practices appropriate for these categories. The adoption of these practices enables better collaborative working as they can support multi-disciplinary working teams that include representatives from a wider range of knowledge expertise. However, the adoption of new working practices come at the cost of a significant learning curve, and the adoption of techniques and approaches that are not familiar to researchers. This points to the need for dedicated funding, training and support to achieve increased adoption of good enough practices. As such, there is a need to better understand the priorities for the open science practices identified in this review. Given the limited resources to conduct research in the programme, the allocation between doing research and learning and implementing these practices needs to be carefully considered. There is potential for the collaborative working practices enabled by the adoption of the Open Science concept to unlock huge opportunities for democratic and equitable co-development of scientific development between UK researchers and the Lower and Middle-Income Countries targeted by the CCG programme.
