DiffUSE Open Science Policies and Guidelines

Astera’s open science policy is that all work products created with Astera dollars must be made available under CC-BY (attribution required, recommended) or CC 0 (completely free use). Even if it’s after the funding ends but the work was funded by Astera, those should be openly available per our policy (preprint or stacks if ready or other acceptable method outside of journals) If this is not work funded by us but is funded/done independently, building on our shared products, they should just cite the public data/methods/whatever when they share their outputs.

Guidance: Default to open: “When in doubt, put it out”

Written output: FAIR-compliant i.e., The Stacks, BioRxiv, Zenodo, Radial is developing The Stacks and is actively working with groups within the Radial ecosystem to identify the best way to communicate the findings.

Publish as you go: Do not wait for a ‘completed story’

Code: Repositories should be developed in the open.

Data release: Before or at publication release. Use a reasonable balance of releasing data that does not over-burden researchers, but does not hold back data Use existing FAIR repositories whenever available (PDB, EMPIAR, AddGene, Zenodo, protocols.io, etc).

License permissively: (CC0 for content, CC0 or CC-BY for writen publications, MIT or Apache 2.0 for code)

Acknowledge Radial: As a collaborator, you can directly acknowledge Radial in the acknowledgments or support/materials/funding as “Radial (https://ror.org/050rbg919)”