Becoming an Open Science Institution - The Douglas Research Centre

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In line with our open science guiding principles, the Douglas Open Science Program aims to support external organizations or large-scale programs looking to broadly adopt open science practices, especially in the context of mental health research. The sections below collect presentations, publications and resources produced by our Open Science Program, sharing lessons learned and reusable tools. We additionally provide external resources relevant to our open science journey.

To learn more about the initial steps of the Douglas Open Science Program, please consult our position paper “Opening up mental health research”.

Please consult the “2024-2029 Strategic Planning” document to learn more about the current and upcoming goals of the Douglas Open Science Program, as well as our implementation strategy.

Publications

Isabel O.L. Bacellar, Geneviève Morin, Sylvanne Daniels, Gustavo Turecki, Lena Palaniyappan, Martin Lepage. 2023. Opening up Mental Health Research. J Psychiatry Neurosci 48 (3) E209-E216. DOI: 10.1503/jpn.220199
Kelly D. Cobey, Stefanie Haustein, Jamie Brehaut, Ulrich Dirnagl, Delwen L. Franzen, Lars G. Hemkens, Justin Presseau, Nico Riedel, Daniel Strech, Juan Pablo Alperin, Rodrigo Costas, Emily S Sena, Thed van Leeuwen, Clare L. Ardern, Isabel O. L. Bacellar, Nancy Camack, Marcos Britto Correa, Roberto Buccione, Maximiliano Sergio Cenci, Dean A. Fergusson, Cassandra Gould van Praag, Michael M. Hoffman, Renata Moraes Bielemann, Ugo Moschini, Mauro Paschetta, Valentina Pasquale, Valeria E. Rac, Dylan Roskams-Edris, Hermann M. Schatzl, Jo Anne Stratton, David Moher. 2023. Community consensus on core open science practices to monitor in biomedicine. PLOS Biology 21(1): e3001949. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001949

Recorded presentations

The Network Effect: Canadian Institutes Join Forces for Open Science (The Neuro), with Dr. Martin Lepage – June 7, 2022
La science ouverte à la portée de tous (Communauté de pratique Accès aux Données), with Geneviève Morin – June 14, 2022

Reusable resources

Open Science program’s OSF project, DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/F7XPY – reusable versions of documents and tools created to launch and sustain our Open Science Program.
Open Science program’s webpages – several useful examples e.g., Douglas Open Access Policy or Douglas Open Science Awards.
Douglas Neuroinformatics Platform’s GitHub page – software and documentation for the Douglas Neuroinformatics Platform.

External resources

Below we list external resources that have been of great help to our Open Science Program, including communities of practice, available funding programs, and existing open science services that provided support and partnerships. Although some resources may only be relevant for organizations in Quebec or Canada, they are good starting points to identify equivalent resources in your university or geographical location.

McGill University open access publishing and research data management services – several universities, including McGill University, offer services related to open science through their libraries.
Tanenbaum Open Science Institute (TOSI) – provides funding and mentoring for adoption of open Sscience across Canadian neuroscience research institutes.
Initiative “Accès aux données”, from the Table Nationale des Directeurs de la Recherche – organizes events and a community of practice around access to data in healthcare and social services, focusing on the Quebec landscape.
Center for Scientific Collaboration and Community Engagement (CSCCE) – organizes events and a community of practice, with insightful discussions about open science through the Open Research Special Interest Group.

Connect with us

We invite you to contact the Douglas Open Science Team to learn more about our journey or to partner with our Open Science Program.