The data-sharing landscape has transformed significantly over the past five years. As demands for research transparency and efficiency continue to rise, data-sharing policies have become increasingly common with funders and journals alike. The 2022 Nelson Memorandum's data-sharing requirements promise to further accelerate the uptake of these policies, as funded researchers aim to comply with requirements and publishers respond to the evolving needs of the research community. This interactive session will touch on the process of moving journals from weaker data-sharing policies to more stringent ones, the internal training and support needed at the publisher level to embed data policies and enable assessment of author compliance, the impact, and challenges of fully Open Data policies; the limitations of journal data sharing policies and the extent to which they support the sharing of reusable data; and how technological innovations can support stronger data sharing policies.

As the knowledge ecosystem becomes increasingly global, conversations around diversity, equity, and inclusion in the research lifecycle within the scholarly communication community are broadening from focusing on topics such as biases in peer review and citations to considering how entrenched inequities and geopolitical considerations impact the broader context in which research occurs and shape the fabric of what we consider to be scholarly inquiry. This one-hour panel will focus on the externalities that affect knowledge production, from the factors that determine the kinds of research questions that receive funding and the individuals who can pursue research projects to definitions of “science” and what we consider to be knowledge. The session aims to challenge participants’ assumptions about objectivity in research and promote conversations about the global body of knowledge.