(not all will apply to every campaign)
- Protect yourself or others from career-risk (by acting as part of a bigger herd)
- Accountability (encourage people to carry through with good intentions)
- Practical support (from community on how to conduct practice, e.g. preregistration)
- Motivation (people are social and like to be part of a group)
- Empower others to strengthen their commitment to open research practices
- Signal to authorities (institutions, funders) that you want change
- Increase awareness of open research practices
- Facilitate cooperation between open research initiatives
- Generate data on support for different open research practices
- Pressure publishers and institutions to adapt their policies
- Stimulate innovation and adoption of new technologies
- Facilitate cooperation between open research initiatives
- Complement ‘top-down’ mandates (e.g., Plan S) with ‘bottom-up’ support
- Protect vulnerable researchers from repercussions of mandates