Fostering Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Open Science

The goal of open science is to make the scientific research process and its outputs more transparent and accessible, and by design, to make science itself more rigorous. Fortunately, tools that assist researchers with documenting and publishing their scientific workflows have increased, and scientists around the world are making more of the parts of their research available via the open web. The result has been more scrutiny of data, methods, and results via methods used to test reproducibility and replication, and more access to many around the world. However, good scientific infrastructure does not guarantee more diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in science. For example, open source software communities follow a similar paradigm but are often less diverse and more exclusive than their proprietary technology counterparts. The goal of this session is to provide an overview of the benefits of open science but also to show what interventions are required to foster a healthy, diverse, equitable, and inclusive scientific community.