Pen-Yuan Hsing

Interpretation of focus group and interview feedback on if Octopus is useful for researchers and research institutions and funders.

Analysis of feedback from researchers and research infrastructure managers on the potential usefulness of Octopus for publishing open research.

Results of interviews with research infrastructure managers about their perceptions of Octopus.

Results of focus groups on researcher perceptions of Octopus.

Interviews with research infrastructure managers at various institutions, to understand if and how Octopus may fit into their offering for researchers.

Focus groups with researchers from various fields of research to understand their initial perceptions of Octopus.

Interpretation of interviews and survey on research culture.

Analysis of interviews on research culture.

Analysis of survey on research culture.

Interviews with researchers on research culture.

Results of survey on research culture.

Survey to assess researchers' perception of the current research culture and barriers to open, high quality research

Semi-structured interview plan for assessing researchers' feelings about the research culture and perception of barriers to open, high quality research.

The theory of how Octopus aims to help encourage open and high quality research.

A summary of the known issues with incentives in scholarly publishing.