ARCHIVE - Transform to Open Science
Published June 1, 2024 | Version v1
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ARCHIVE - Science funders: commitments towards open infrastructure

Creators

Contributors

  • 1. EPFL & ETHZ, Ciencia Sí, & International Science Diplomacy Network of Latin America & the Caribbean - Diplocientífica
  • 2. ROR icon National Institute of Informatics
  • 3. ROR icon Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e. V. (DLR)
  • 4. OAPEN Foundation
  • 5. ROR icon University of Virginia
  • 6. Consortia, Colombia
  • 7. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin & Helmholtz Association
  • 8. University of Sheffield
  • 9. ROR icon Delft University of Technology
  • 10. ROR icon Invest in Open Infrastructure
  • 11. Open Research Funders Group

Description

After the 2023 CERN-NASA Summit “Accelerating the Adoption of Open Science”, a group of participants highlighted the need for science funders to consider infrastructure as a key prerequisite of open science policies. The experts understand that current lack of support for the mechanisms for sharing data, articles, code, and designs is undermining effective adoption of open science. 

The goal of these principles is to provide high-level orientation to science funders, including national councils, universities, and research institutes, so open infrastructure has the support it needs for sustainable open science strategies. The document consists of a core set of principles plus a desirable list of recommendations for those already addressing infrastructure in open science.

These recommendations for funders are accompanied by a set of principles for open infrastructure projects that complements the first set and aims to increase the quality of service provided to researchers and institutions. The group aims to emphasize that the principles for infrastructure initiatives do not have a prescriptive approach; instead the goal should be to foster good practices in the field. 

This work intends  to add and build on the corpus of work that has been undertaken globally in this area, some of which is referenced at the end of this document. As any global framework, it will need to be regionally situated to ensure feasibility, efficacy and sustainability in a diversity of contexts.

Files

Science funders commitments towards OI-CERN-NASA-WG1.pdf

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Funding

Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation