 Hello and welcome to our webinar entitled Open Sciences Across Geographies, Speaker Series with our Chinese Open Science Network for CUSN. My name is Daniel Stieger. I am the Technical Community Manager here for the Center for Open Science. I'm joined today by members from the Chinese Open Science Network and their esteemed experts on open science for Chinese researchers. The goal of this webinar is to provide insights into open science or what open science is like for Chinese researchers, both in English and then again in Chinese. This webinar will be the first of two webinars. The second webinar will be held on Saturday, June 17th at 1800 Eastern Time. It will contain the same presentation but it'll be hosted entirely in Chinese. Quick introduction, the Center for Open Science is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting open science practices in research. As part of COS's theory of change, we have efforts and programming striving to make lasting changes in open science practices all the way from the government and policy levels to our research platform, the Open Science Framework, the OSF. Is that this time? I'd like to turn it over to my co-host, Dr. Yu Fang Yang, who will introduce the format of this webinar. Hi, I'm Yu Fang Yang. So welcome everyone. So this is approximately 30 minutes webinar now we'll cover the following talking points. So we have a seven minutes talk on introduction to Chinese Open Science Network by Dr. Qin of Vincent Wang. Then we will have a seven minute talk on open science perspective on Chinese researcher in published by Dr. Qin Nanzhou. And finally, we will have then a seven minute talk by Yu Wei Gao on the Open Science from the government and policy perspective. And then lastly, we will end with a question and answer Q&A sessions. So please add the question into the chat and then we will select the questions to our speakers during the Q&A sessions. And there is at least point, I would like to turn it over to our first speaker, Dr. Wang. So thank you, Dr. Wang. So do you want to get started with your first talk? Thank you, Yu Fang. Thank you for introduction. Can you hear me? No? Yes, we can hear you. Perfect. Okay, okay. So thank you for the invitation. And I'm very honored to be here to give a small introduction on Chinese Open Science Network on behalf of COSN. So let's get started. So when we're looking at the open science community, they have a lot of like open science organizations like reproducibility network, reproducibility or an open science grassroots networks. We also have like large organizations of open science organizations like we have ambassadors of Center for Open Science and we have a lot of members there. When we're looking at the, where do they come from? Most of the time, what we say is that developed countries, the like US, the European countries like Germany, UK and also Canada and Australia but we seldom see any like developing countries, especially the countries from Latin American, from Eastern world or even from like North Africa. So here is just a summary of the nationality of the open science organizations. So if you would like to see where China is, I put the border of China in the yellow color. So we can only say like in the small corner, China appears in an ambassador of Center for Open Science for the members of SIPs, nothing. And for the reproducibility network, still nothing. So what we see from here is currently the open science communities are mainly as a contribution from the Western educated all the developed countries. We are still need more like contributions from the developing world. So that's why we are trying to build the Chinese open science network from grassroots to give more voice to the open science world that even with a lot of limitations in developing countries we're lacking of funding, we're lacking of support from the government and from everywhere but we're still trying to spread the word that open science is the right way to do science. So let's look at how we grow up. So since the very early paper about the reproducibility crisis, especially the science paper in 2015, all the researchers, especially in psychology are really astonished because we are really not able to reproduce our previous research results. It's really bad. So everybody is astonished and among them, one person called Hu Chunfeng who is a PhD student in China and he believes this is a very important message and he just writes a Chinese paper describing the reproducibility crisis and open science and all the concepts and introduce open science introduce open science to the Chinese community and a screenshot of the paper is on the right corner of this slide. After that, we started organizing small workshops. It's just like a small workshop organized by two or three or like 10 students who are interested in open science who are really curious about how to do better science and we successfully have our first offline webinar in Xi'an in 2016. After that, we believe that we really need to spread the world to the whole Chinese community and we started our WeChat official account. WeChat is a mobile app. It's like the combination of WhatsApp and Twitter and Facebook. You can have all your contacts in the list. You can create groups. You can also share photos or documents or a lot of other posts like short Twitter. You can share all this media with your friends and in the groups. So that's what most of the Chinese people use for like instant messaging. After that, we started to think about the things we can do to really promote open science. So we started with doing translation. We already saw that there are a lot of interesting papers regarding open science. For example, the 2015 referendum crisis paper, we started translating these papers and translated into Chinese and created a post. It's just like created a Twitter content with the translation and shared with all the Chinese students and the Chinese PIs. And gradually, we started to organize our second offline workshop and then the third one. So until 2019, the epidemic came. We're locked down. We're no longer able to organize offline or onsite workshops that we have to meet virtually. And I joined CELICEN since then because before epidemic, the main things we're doing is like first translate the important papers regarding open science into Chinese and the second thing is we're organizing like journal clubs. We find good paper and we share the perspectives and among the CELICEN members. So since the epidemic came, we need to organize all the events online and we're starting to think why not organize a little bit more events like the tutorials because part of the reason for the referendum crisis is the wrong way of using statistical methods and wrong way of interpreting these results. So we started by organizing tutorials related to like power analysis and Bayesian methods and then maybe we extend the tutorials to the most recent events in like newer imaging methods and all the EEG and MEG methods and tour boxes. And the fact that we have been doing is open talks we're inviting the authors from the like most recent and heated papers, like the most recent paper in about the most recent paper about the like Chinese version of a human connect home project, we invited the authors the first author and they give us the introduction about how they collect the data, how they make the protocol and how they're going to share their data. That's attracted a lot of interest from all the like students and also the early career recenters. And apart from all these like formal academic events we're also organizing very like Cairo events. Cairo events, it's mainly like we make these events mainly like on the holidays. For example, we are organizing the like Christmas events and we call it the open plus. It's very inviting the people who moved from industry to academia and also some professors from academia to industry and very invited them to share their ideas why they're moving from one area to the other and what are their suggestions for our students and for all the postdocs. And until 2021, we have never first like steering committee meeting because before that we're mainly like working in one which a group we organize everything together. Everybody's involved and we don't have a like clear responsibility for everyone. We do things together it's just like this organized but with the accumulation of more events and the more people to manage when you need a better like optimized administration structure. So until the early this year we're having to 23,000 subscribers. I've checked this number like several days ago. It's now we are having 25,000 subs subscriber in our like official which a group. They also have never Twitter accounts to like broadcast never events activities and sometimes like recruiting PhD students and these sort of things. So we record most of our activities and the shares they are recordings while another like streaming platform is called the Billy Billy's because this platform allows us to share all these videos without forcing people to watch their advertisements. So, yeah, then this is our current structure. So this is the example of how we met the post and this is the social media we're using and this is the number of reads on our event posts and these are numbers we have organized. So the most read open talks open transfer is read and the one is a face stimulus and talk lecture. That's the translation of the resources regarding like how to make fixed stimulation like programs and the tools you can use for that purposes. And here I'll see some other interesting thing like this is a p-value of sea and power. This is about, this is here in our open minds and et cetera. So the experiences we learned from like building steel as from a small like special interest group is that. So first of all, be bold and optimistic even though we're facing a lot of like challenges and barriers, we're lacking of funding we're lacking of support, but be bold and optimistic. We can always seek help from other, from other like from the other open science organizations and also be connected, always ask help from other open science organizations and for the person who is really affordable like promoting open science, they're gonna definitely help you and be practical. This is important because we need to make sure that our the academic activities and all these events are really helpful for our audience and to be visible, try to like make, try to put your contributions and make everything documented and recorded and that's gonna be like one, and this is one line of your CV, which is like it says you really done something to make research better. So be affordable and be local. This is important because you need to balance the time you spend on promoting open science and also the time you spend on your real research and this is important. And the COS's next plan is continuing our support for the Chinese speaking community to increase open science and make contribution to the international communities like we work, we can work with COS to like to do some translations and to transport the knowledge from the Chinese language to the English language and also from the international open science world to the Chinese community. And we are optimizing our current organizational structure to survive better because we really need to balance the time, especially when most of us just went from PhD or a master's student to early career researchers, we need to manage a lot of things at the same time. And we're gonna continue improving our opens science events like the open full pass events. And we need to organize and manage the materials we already created and make them more easily accessible to our audience. And we plan to support like regional wise grassroots networks within and outside of China. So if you would like to build your local open science networks, we are happy to help always. And one important thing is, since I think has grown, has grown, so we are trying to find our best to help to not only like promote open science, but also really helps those reason charts to do better science. So we're trying to work with other open science organizations like BrainHack, OFBM BrainHack and all the other, some other open science organizations to organize like the hack songs and all these sort of events. And we are happy to reach out to other like open science organizations to apply for the financial support or fund together to make life easier for open science. So still we are, we need to do a lot of things to make the, to cut with the open science research environment. For example, we really need the help from the like, from the top level of like from the government and from the funding agency and also from the publishing companies we need the support from them. And also we need to remember that developing countries and developed countries are different. And also we should really break the gap between all these differences including the, including promoting like equality, diversity and a global open science. And also the recent years, we heard the recent years from developing countries and especially the under representative groups make wise themselves and they're always help, we're always ready to help. And what we do here with everyone together is to pass on the spirit of open science to the students and to the ECRs so that we're having a real open science future. So thank you for your time. So it's a bit of a thank you. Yeah, thanks for the great talk, Dr. Wong. So don't forget to, you have any questions, feel free to add them to the Q and the eight and just let you know to this station that we're running now. So we actually have a webinar as we called it. So we will post this later if you can ask that longer. So last, last welcome for our next speaker is Dr. Zhou is going to talk about the open science perspective for Chinese research in publishing. So the virtual floor is yours now. Thank you very much for the introduction. So I'll try to share my screen. Look at this one. Can you see my screen? Yes, but we also see the sub slide. Do you want to be presenting full screen? Sure, now? Perfect, yeah, looks good. Yes. Thank you. So hello everyone. So I will spend seven minutes to talk about the publishing in China about the things related to open science. So I'm really excited to see this event happen, you know, the try to remove the barriers between different languages. And also I'm the editor, associate editor from the one top journal of Chinese journals named Science Splitting. So in the first issue of this year, a message from the editor-in-chief calling open science to support the global sustainable development. And also, by the way, I am a senior from Beijing Normal. And I'm a neuroscientist, focused on human brain mapping. So I'm going to talk about the open science perspective for Chinese researchers in publishing. I remember I only make a very small point here. And so by focusing on the neuroscience, I will focus on three cohorts in China and to highlight the point I want to make about the publishing. So the first one is what we call a Chinese colonized project for lifespan development of brain and mind. And the second one we call Chinese human connective project. And the third one is Chinese imaging genetics project. So in the first year, in the first issue of Neutron Neuroscience this year, I think it proposed a piece about the excruciating human new imaging methods to highlight the need to increase the diversity of diverse subjects all from the new imaging community. And I also wasn't just mentioned the weird sample of things. Actually this is all recognized by the new imaging field very early. So the first project is, we all know the project that proposed in 2009 by NIH called the Human Connective Project. And in next year, last year we published one paper to announce the Chinese Human Connective Project by using almost the identical protocol with HCP. And then we can see from the postulation for the cortical sheet, and then those postulations are largely identical. But also if you look into those culture related or language related even for large scale networks, there are still differences between the two cohorts. So another one is with the Chinese imaging genetics project. And this one is a very big project. And also now all the data already collected and we published a lot of papers. But I'm sure it's not all over the researchers know this resource. And then we can see here, we published these papers in English. And then also for the names, for the contents of the papers are all in English. And that's a problem that's a great problem for Chinese researchers. I mean, most Chinese researchers, they read Chinese much easier at them. So the point I want to make is about, so for my own team, I always thinking about, why not we published in both English and Chinese for the same thing at them? For example, I published with my team members, published the Chinese colonized project in English. And then, but of course we published in Chinese first. This is, you know, five way ahead of the English paper. And then we already published in Chinese. And then I know most, you know, foreign guys, very, very difficult to read this. And then, but, and it is much easier for us. And then, so my point here is, is there any way for open science community to push forward the publisher, even other there's another way or resource or platform to publish the same thing, the same scientific contents in multiple languages. So this is the one I want to push forward, push the publisher to do is we write this, we try to write the papers in both languages and then to ask the publishers, such like nature scientific data to publish it in both. And I don't know, maybe we are still discussing about this with nature. But at least now we push them to publish these names in both English and Chinese and then to recognize. And then, so I'm not very sure about this, but for me, for open science, from a more open science perspective, we should by using this new culture to push these things in publishing. So my, the whole message is about how open science can help break down the language barriers in publishing. The point is very small, I already made. So thank you very much. Thank you so much for a great talk. Just remind everyone, sorry, today I'll be longer than we expected. We obviously have a lot more to talk about. Remind everyone, sorry, today I'll be longer than we expected. We're all very passionate about the topic we present. So I'll just let you know the session recorded and just put your question there. We will try our best to select a question in the end. So that's where kind of next speaker, Dr. Gao, talk about open science from a government and policy perspective. So please share your screen if you are ready. Great, yes. Yes, okay. Okay, here you go. Okay, thank you. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. So grateful for the opportunity to make a pot here. I'm Gao Yuwei from the Computer Network Information Center of KAIS, mainly engaged in scientific data management and sharing research. Today I will introduce scientific data and the open science in China from our policy and practical perspective. I will share some information and the real points based on public information and my work. The first one I will introduce the policy for scientific data and the open science in China, in my opinion. And the openness is one of the essential attributes of science and present. Open science has researched global consensus and a global open science. Governance meets China's participation. And some, I think this policy and you will know some Chinese scholars are also carrying out comparative research on scientific data management policies including academician Wei Yang. I think the place of scientific data management policy development in China has greatly accelerated in research years. From the graph, it can be seen that China's data management policy began to be released in 2018 and which rated as big that year. And in recent years, China has introduced a series and develop a series of data or scientific data management virus. And also this one and in great great data into production factors promote circulation and lay a theoretical foundation for its open sharing. And the first important and in other words, we can see the most important policy is the first national scientific data management merits and its name is the merits for the management of scientific data. It was drafted by the Ministry of Science and Technology formally issued by the general office of the State Council on March 17, 2018 and which established the guideline for China's scientific data work. And also the measures for the management and open sharing of scientific data in CAS was formally issued by the GEO CAS on February 19, 2019. And there is eight chapters and 36 articles in our this policy because the time limit I only introduce some is important. In this policy, the key issue is the scientific data center because the scientific data center is the key to ensuring the sustainable development of scientific data. So in the policy, three types of scientific data centers are defined and they are the chief center this sampling data center and the institution data center. And then the second point where I will introduce some practices for scientific data and the open sites in China, in my opinion. In order to implement policies for the data management China released 20 national data centers as the pilot to improve the data opening and the sharing actively. These data centers covered the fields of physical science by science, earth, queen, and so on. And I worked at the national space science data center. In other, in other points and activities in recent years, Zhong Guan Chun forum have supported some open science projects in China. And such as the international innovation lines for open science was established. And the Beijing in the in their time for open science projects was issued. Scientific data and the open science was held this year. And this is also a picture. And in 2022, academic department of kind kept the test launch is the advisory review project research on the trains and the impact of open science and all the, all the so many the academicians, deputies, directors take part in this project. And the project is on the research and in standards, China is keeping on establishing scientific data based standardization architecture as well as the guidelines to lower the gap in data measurement. And I look up the information from the WebZert publications authored by national science and the technology infrastructure platform center and by professionals how officials released in recent years. In these studies, the progress and the challenges of open sharing and the data have been discovered. And the other practice for the cast a long term mission started in 1986 which founded by cast. And now we are we are we are we are establishing a center of kinds. Based on the 40 years as the data work and the three years data centers development has has from the data central network considered of one chief data center 18, this discipline data center and 16 in institutional data center and also data paper and the related data are encouraged to publish on the data journals and the data repositories such as we established a science data bank. On the second point I want to share in the summer work about national based science data center. And during the designing and the development of the NBSDC platform we fully complied with the fair principle and the implementation ideas to related open science such as including the data policy and some the PID also we NBSDC has taken the lead and precipitated in developing 23 national standards and the developers data center standard system is on the list and the last NBSDC also held some workshops on cutting issues such as the data assets in the area of data economy and challenges of open sharing of some data in China and also including the issue about open science and so on. Finally, I hope we can make a progress to promoting that open science and the scientific data together in the future. That's all the things I want to share with you. Thank you very much. Thank you for your attention. Thank you everyone and thank you to all of our speakers. I saw a couple of mentions in the chat of wanting the speakers presentations the slides. We're going to collect those from our speakers and we will send that out in the email that I'll go out later today. Now it's time for our Q&A session which is our chance to hear from our audience. Obviously we are a little bit over on time so what we've done is we've collected all of the questions that came in the chat and come in through our Q&A session. We're going to pick one to talk about now but we're going to continue the conversation on some of our different social media platforms both for COSN and for the Center for Open Science that way that we can continue the conversation even though we are a little over on time now but again the session will be recorded and sent out so if you do have to leave that is okay. I appreciate everyone that has stuck around for us. Our first and really only question that we're going to answer today is how do Chinese researchers receive the benefits and challenges of adopting open science practices? I believe Vincent you had mentioned in our little document here that you might want to take the first attempt at this one. Yeah so basically I just finished my postdoc from M&I joined the Shanghai Mental Health Center so it's a university affiliated hospital so basically here I've been really talking to a lot of clinicians and the doctors here and they're doing their research. They're very interested in improving their quality of research and they're happy to use better methods and to do things more rigorously and to manage their data properly which really needs a lot of efforts which really is not their expertise but they also have very heavy burden of like they need to do a lot of clinical work. They don't have enough time to organize their data and to check all the methods again and again because it's too difficult for them. So they really would like to like embrace open science but they really need help like they need help from the informatics group need the help from the statisticians and need the help from the people who are really doing open science research. So that is how the clinical staff or the doctors see open science when I was trying to talk to the hospital like the hospital chair and they're really also really interested in improving the old research and make the data at least like shareable and fair within their institutions but really it's not something like we would like to do it, we do it now it really needs some expertise. So I guess one of the roles of the open science community is that to spread the wide that doing open science really needs some solid background of technology or of statistics and maybe we need more permanent positions in these institutions that working in open science with the open science like practice and all these guidelines. I think this is something I've observed when I just come back to China. Thank you. Wonderful, thank you. Do either of our other two speakers want to address the question of perceived benefits or challenges of adopting open science practices for Chinese researchers? Sure, Daniel, I have one point to make here is as you've already pointed out there are actually a lot of informatics resources already in China, especially in Chinese academic sciences but I think the connection between the national centers or national resources need to be to be smoothly linked to the local universities or also all those hospitals I think Vincent made this gap clear. Okay, thank you. Any other comments? Wonderful. Well, with that we will take a final look at the chat make sure that we have all the questions we will record them and we will talk about them in other platforms. I believe you Fang has also added links to the COSN Twitter the WeChat group that you guys use feel free to contact them directly. You can also contact me at the Center for Open Science. My name is Daniel Stieger. You can find my contact information on our chat and we thank everyone for coming today. I feel like this is really informative and the really beneficial thing about this is that Saturday we will be hosting the same webinar presentations in this time within Chinese so hopefully it will help us reduce some of these language barriers that were talked about in depth today. Thank you everyone for coming and we will thank you again to our speakers and we will close up here. Thank you everyone.