Open Science: a practical guide for PhD students
The Open Science Training Handbook
Foster Open Science Training Course
Open Science MOOC
- Open Science MOOCThis MOOC is designed to help equip students and researchers with the skills they need to excel in a modern research environment. It brings together the efforts and resources of hundreds of researchers and practitioners who have all dedicated their time and experience to create a community platform to help propel research forward.
European Open Science Cloud (EOSC)
- EOSCThe European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) is an environment for hosting and processing research data to support EU science.
The process to create the EOSC was initiated by the Commission in 2015. It aimed to develop a trusted, virtual, federated environment that cuts across borders and scientific disciplines to store, share, process and re-use research digital objects (like publications, data, and software) following FAIR principles.
The EOSC brings together institutional, national and European stakeholders, initiatives and data infrastructures to develop an inclusive open science ecosystem in Europe.
Open Science for the 21st Century
Openness is at the heart of the scientific endeavour. This draft working paper, which was developed in response to a UNESCO global consultation on open science, brings together work developed within the International Science Council’s (ISC) community on open science.
The paper describes the rationale for and the origins of the modern open science movement, its dimensions and its applications. It makes recommendations to scientists, to universities, to UNESCO and to other science systems stakeholders about changes that are necessary for the effective operation of open science. The paper includes information on the ISC projects and programmes that are designed to support aspects of open science, as described in the ISC Action Plan 2019 -2021. The appendix includes answers to specific questions posed by UNESCO, for which the detailed arguments are presented in the main text.
Open Science for the 21st Century - International Science Council
Open Science
The global shift towards making research findings available free of charge for readers, so-called 'Open access’, has been a core strategy in the European Commission to improve knowledge circulation and thus innovation. It is illustrated in particular by the general principle for open access to scientific publications in Horizon 2020 and the pilot for research data.
- The Berlin DeclarationThe Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities of 22 October 2003. It is one of the milestones of the Open Access movement. It emerged from a conference on open access hosted in the Harnack House in Berlin by the Max Planck Society in 2003.
Open Science Skills
Dissemination & Exploitation in Horizon Europe
What is Horizon 2020?
Horizon 2020 is the biggest EU Research and Innovation programme ever with nearly €80 billion of funding available over 7 years (2014 to 2020) – in addition to the private investment that this money will attract. It promises more breakthroughs, discoveries and world-firsts by taking great ideas from the lab to the market.
"Making publicly funded scientific information available online, at no extra cost, to European researchers, innovative industries and the public, while ensuring that it is preserved in the long term"
Horizon Europe - the next research and innovation framework programme will be launched 1st Jan 2021
Find your Research Area in Horizon 2020
Paywall: The Business of Scholarship
Plan S: Taking stock of the current situation and new developments
cOALition S
- "Plan S"On 4 September 2018, a group national research funding organisation, with the support of the European Commission and the European Research Council (ERC), announced the launch of cOAlition S, an initiative to make full and immediate Open Access to research publications a reality. It is built around Plan S, which consists of one target and 10 principles.
- "Thoughts on Plan S "Peter Suber's (Director of the Harvard Office for Scholarly Communication) Blog https://plus.google.com/+PeterSuber
- 'Plan S' and 'cOAlition S' – Accelerating the transition to full and immediate Open Access to scientific publications (European Commission)With the increasing pace of scientific discovery and growing public demand for reliable information, there has never been a greater need for immediate, universal, access to the latest research findings. But with many scientific journals behind paywalls not everyone can get hold of this knowledge.
- cOAlition S statement on Open Access for academic booksAcademic books – defined here to include monographs, book chapters, edited collections, critical editions, and other long-form works – are an important mode of publication for scholars, especially in the Social Sciences and Humanities. Several studies have pointed out the benefits of Open Access (OA) book publishing.
- The European Plan S Can Speed Up the Gradual Progress of Open Access, Despite Divided Opinions on its Effectiveness (Open Science)Whereas the latest Scopus data show a significant increase in the number of scholarly articles published in Gold Open Access in the last decade, the promises to revolutionize the scientific journal publishing that the Plan S of European research foundations apparently makes also meet with skepticism as to whether it can reach its goals on time
- National Research Funders participating on Coalition S (Science Europe)Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) is the sole participant listed for Ireland. http://www.sfi.ie/research-news/news/coalition-s-open-access/index.xml
- New coalition of European funders join together to place unprecedented mandate on researchers to publish OAA promising new initiative aimed at greatly accelerating the migration to a fully Open Access research environment in Europe was announced: Plan S. Backed by 11 national funding organisations joined together in the guise of cOAlition S, and with the support of the European Commission and the European Research Council, the Plan has as its goal to see all research funded by participating funding organisations being published via OA compliant journals or platforms by 2020.
- Statement by Carlos Moedas: 'Plan S' and 'cOAlition S' – Accelerating the transition to full and immediate Open Access to scientific publicationss-accelerating-transition-full-and-immediate-open-access-scientific_en
- Thoughts on `Plan S’, `cOAlition S’ and Open Access Publishing (Peter Coles)Those of you who have been following my recent updates on progress with The Open Journal of Astrophysics may be interested to hear about `Plan S’, which is a proposal by 11 European Nations to give the public free access to publicly funded science.
