The CRIS’ role in the Evolution of Trust in Science

Abstract

The Open Science movement is bigger than uninhibited access to research, data, or metadata. Open Science is about elevating the quality of research methods, outcomes, and administration to engender higher levels of accountability, transparency, and trust across all research activities. The CRIS’ role in research administration has historically been about developing a physically secure and technically stable framework/platform that supports operational processes and reporting about research -- in other words, helping researchers and administrators describe science rather than do it or defend it. But by continuing to expand complementary data integration and layering improved, researcher-focused tools on deeply embedded operational workflows, the role of the CRIS can shift from research program administration to an arbiter of trust in science.