Reuse Incentive Group

If we want science to be reused, we need to make it worth it for researchers.

This working group is focused on the systems, signals, and incentives that motivate researchers to share earlier, build on each other’s work, and get credit for doing so.

If you're curious about what drives behaviour in science—and how to shift it toward openness, collaboration, and reuse—this is your space.

Time commitment: 3-4 hour commitment over two months starting in January 2026.

What’s the groups goal:

Identify current reuse pain points and examples where licensing has reduced friction particularly for modular science.

Explore licensing and complementary systems as technical and cultural enablers of reuse for modular research outputs.

All meeting will be virtual. Thank you to our working group partners Creative Commons.