Open Science aims to encourage sharing of all research objects associated with the research (articles, preprints, code, data, protocols, peer review reports) following the FAIR principles. Linking and associating objects that participate in one ‘research unit’ will be increasingly important to facilitate discoverability and recognition of the network of objects, and to contribute to more reproducible and transparent science sharing. This discussion will cover different aspects of this topic, such as: what are the opportunities and blockers to connect the different objects? how can different stakeholders, researchers, publishers, platform providers, funders etc, collaborate to create an improved form of science communication based on the shared ‘network of objects’? how do we ensure it helps diversify credit and recognition beyond articles?

The discussion will bring the perspectives of different stakeholders into this question and provide priorities, roadblocks and solutions to achieve this goal.