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A decade ago, University of Virginia psychology professor Brian Nosek cofounded an unusual nonprofit, the Center for Open Science. It’s been a cheerleader, enabler, and nagger to convince scientists that making their methods, data, and papers available to others makes for better science.
For decades, communities have had little access to scientific information despite paying for it with their tax dollars. To bring open science into the mainstream, we need creative policy solutions - and your help to create them.
The Arab region comprises 22 member states across the Gulf, North Africa, and Sub-Saharan Africa. Although economic circumstances, and available human, physical and digital capacities vary widely across these 22 states, the region as a whole has the resources and capability to play a pivotal role in the global transition towards more accessible, sustainable and inclusive research and education models.
Open science is increasingly becoming a policy focus and paradigm for all scientific research. Ismael Rafols, Ingeborg Meijer and Jordi Molas-Gallart argue that attempts to monitor the transition to open science should be informed by the values underpinning this change, rather than discrete indicators of open science practices.
A summit, entitled “Accelerating the Adoption of Open Science”, took place at CERN from 10 to 14 July, bringing together representatives from 70 scientific institutions to discuss how to develop and implement open science policies across the globe.
Open data sharing is critical for scientific progress. Yet, many authors refrain from sharing scientific data, even when they have promised to do so.
For a lot of fields other than computer science, open science is not a norm.
In celebration of the 2023 Year of Open Science, CERN and NASA are jointly organizing "Accelerating the Adoption of Open Science", a week long open science summit at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, from 10 to 14 July 2023.
This study aims to review the open science (OS) policy documents, identify their subject areas, and distinguish the topics of OS support policies in seven European countries, providing a platform for practical cooperation between countries in science popularization.
Sweden kicked off a five-month push to deepen EU cooperation on research infrastructures and open data sharing, at an informal meeting of research ministers in Stockholm on Wednesday. The six-month Swedish presidency of the EU isn't introducing new topics to the table but homing in on two that have been discussed for years: research infrastructures and open science publishing.
There are still barriers and hesitations around open research practices. The authors of this article suggest that publishers and technology platforms can better support authors and drive uptake.
Eighty stakeholders from twenty major biomedical research institutions across the globe have agreed upon a list of 19 open science practices to be implemented and monitored.
Switzerland and other rich countries want to maintain privileged access to vaccines and life-saving treatments - putting global public health at risk.
Iain Hrynaszkiewicz discusses PLOS's Open Science Indicators initiatives and shares initial results.
This literature review aims to examine the approach given to open science policy in the different studies.
A new open access charter by Lero, the SFI research centre for software, aims to make publicly-funded research in Ireland openly available.
Research software is a fundamental and vital part of research, yet significant challenges to discoverability, productivity, quality, reproducibility, and sustainability exist.
The Science family of journals will soon allow authors to publicly share manuscripts more widely without incurring fees.
Science Europe is organising a conference on Open Science. Institutional leaders, researchers at all stages of their careers, and experts from the field are invited to this event to discuss whether Open Science is ready to become the norm in research, and how to ensure an equitable transition.
The CERN Council established a new open science policy for the organisation with immediate effect during its 209th Session in September.
During its 209th Session in September, the CERN Council approved a new policy for open science at the Organization, with immediate effect.
Research Information spoke to four experts in the field about the ongoing move to open science, and the challenges that have emerged in an increasingly complex open-science ecosystem.
Beyond ideological boundaries, the Open Science movement should address the question of whether and, if so, under which framework conditions “closeness” can be appropriate in global, political crises. Openness must not be abused to place sanctions in global, political crises by closing open offers.
The policy, hailed by researchers as “transformational,” will be fully in place by 2026 and make publicly financed research available immediately at no cost.
Within the scientific community, the words "open science" have been on everyone's lips in recent years. Open science entails a great promise of a democracy of knowledge, and it is considered to be a universally good thing.
The shift to 'open' working across the social sciences as a discipline group entails a welcome but demanding cultural change - but have there been false starts along the way?
A coalition of research funders has been advocating for free, unrestricted access to publications since 2018. The SNSF is now joining them and adapting its Open Access requirements.
