Making research ‘Open’ and ‘FAIR’   is the responsibility of institutions, not researchers.

Open Science increases the quality and impact of science by fostering reproducibility and interdisciplinarity.

All researchers should be trained  to practice  Open Science.

All universities should make  FAIR sharing of all data and code mandatory.

FAIR is easy  to remember,  but difficult  to achieve.

Sharing software tools created by researchers is useful for other researchers, but this can also make the software more sustainable.

Open Science  policies should  be aligned on all  levels (institutional,  national, EU, international).

Research  career evaluation systems should  fully acknowledge Open Science  activities.

Open Science policies will be ineffective,  as long as  the Journal Impact  Factor is used in research evaluation.

New job profiles  will be created with the adoption of Open Science. This already happened in research data management.

All universities should make it possible to share  lab notebooks  in a shared and mineable space mandatory.

FAIR data should become the default for EU-funded research.

New indicators must be developed to complement the conventional indicators for research quality and impact, so as to  do justice to Open Science practices.

One can find useful stuff in the EOSC Marketplace, such as secure cloud storage services, data anonymization and processing tools, etc. These tools may be affordable or free to use and very efficient, but most researchers will still stick to their old practices and tools they are already familiar with.

Is EOSC  for European research/researchers  only?

Researchers who create software tools can benefit from making them available on the EOSC Marketplace.

Training on EOSC should be included in study programmes at  all levels.

A multilingual interface  would make the  EOSC Portal more  user-friendly.

EOSC is  here to stay.

Not sharing research data is a good strategy to avoid ethical concerns.

All researchers should be trained  on ethical and  legal issues.

I don’t mind my personal data being mined in the pursuit of curing a disease like COVID-19.

Legal issues should be handled by institutions, not individual researchers.

Institutions and researchers should use standardised licences. Using custom licences makes it difficult to understand the details of each licence and verify whether they  are compatible.

Only affiliated researchers can access data on the EOSC Portal and Marketplace.

Everyone  can access data on the EOSC Portal and Marketplace.

I need to pay for services and data I find on the EOSC Portal and Marketplace.

Users may be required to pay for some services available via the EOSC Marketplace. However, there are still many services available free  of charge.

It’s not possible to compare various services on the EOSC Marketplace and order them in a couple of clicks.

Users can easily select the services they would like to compare. The comparison results will be displayed in a table, helping them choose the most suitable service. In case ordering is required, this can be done in a couple of clicks via the EOSC Marketplace. Otherwise, users can follow the link in the EOSC Marketplace to access and use the chosen service.

The EOSC Marketplace includes services but not resources and can’t be used to find publications, data, software or training materials.

In the EOSC Marketplace, one can browse and search for a wide range of resources, including services, data sources, software, publications, datasets and training materials.

The EOSC Portal and Marketplace is not for researchers, but for institutions to promote their tools and services.

The EOSC Portal and Marketplace is intended for various user groups, including researchers. Select the ‘For researchers’ tab on the EOSC Portal home page to see the resources available to researchers.

EOSC resources  (services, data, publications, training materials, etc.) are hosted on the EOSC Portal and you  can find them by searching in  the EOSC Marketplace.

It is true that you can find various resources by searching the EOSC Marketplace. However, they aren’t hosted on the EOSC Portal. They remain on the websites of their providers and you can follow the links in the EOSC Marketplace to access and use them.

EOSC?  Why should I care  about that? All that  matters are citations  and impact factors.

Citation counts and impact factors are merely metrics used in some research evaluation systems. In order to improve the quality of your research, you need access to data, publications, tools, services and training.  That’s where EOSC can help.

EOSC?  I do not need that –  it is only for engineers  and scientists.

The EOSC Portal and Marketplace provide access to resources relevant for all research disciplines and various user groups (researchers, citizen scientists, trainers, policy makers, etc.).