Day 1

Open Science means opening up science through transparency in the research process and participation of new actors in research and innovation. Many research performing organisations (RPOs) are interested in or have already set out to strengthen Open Science at their institution. To facilitate top-down engagement from institutional leaders and culture change we are currently developing Road2Openness (R2O). R2O is a web-based assessment tool that helps institutions to evaluate their current Open Science activities and supports them with recommendations for a strategic opening to develop institutional training, infrastructure and incentive systems for Open Science. We have partnered with three universities in Germany to co-develop and pilot the tool. In this talk, we will present the idea behind the tool, how it can be used by RPOs and the results from the pilot project.

Open Science is an attempt to make science contribute more to tackling major societal challenges. To achieve this grand ambition, public stakeholders and citizens should be involved with science in a meaningful way. We have examined 1) when public engagement can be considered meaningful and, 2) how it can be organised.

Although there is not one optimal way to involve the public meaningfully, this does not mean that any public engagement is by definition meaningful. Our research culminates in the position that public involvement is meaningful when the (power) relationship between knowledge producers and stakeholders changes in favour of the latter. This means that for public engagement to be meaningful, its form must fit well with its aim; the purpose of engaging the public suggests who should be engaged, where, when, and how. Additionally, we present five directives to help policymakers and researchers design processes of meaningful public engagement.

The talk will present the Action Plan for Diamond Open Access, developed by Science Europe, cOAlition S, OPERAS, and the French National Research Agency (ANR). The goal of the Action Plan is to further develop and expand a sustainable, community-driven Diamond OA scholarly communication ecosystem. The Action Plan proposes to align and develop common resources for the entire Diamond OA ecosystem, including journals and platforms, while respecting the cultural, multilingual, and disciplinary diversity that constitutes the strength of the sector. It focuses on four central elements: efficiency, quality standards, capacity building, and sustainability, following up on the recommendations of the ‘Open Access Diamond Journals Study’.

Across disciplines, research quality benefits from transparency and openness, as well as efforts to replicate and reproduce. While open scholarship is experiencing a surge, thanks to efforts to promote robust research grounded in the principles of good research practice sparked by individuals and grassroots approaches, it is still far from the norm. To achieve system-wide change, these efforts at the vanguard of reforming research practices must also become reflected in institutional structures and commitments, and in incentive structures. The goal should be an overhauled academic system that supports and promotes robust and reproducible research, as a solid stepping stone for future research endeavors and for the reliable translation of findings into policies, interventions and innovations. In the current debate about the employment situation in the German academe (#ichbinhanna, “I am Hanna”), we see a multitude of connections between improving the precarious labor conditions for researchers in Germany and improving research practices, offering the chance to leverage the potential for structural change to benefit research quality.

1. Promoting and Educating on Citizen Science in the Context of a Small Central European Country: The Case of Slovakia.
Zuzana Stožická¹, Silvia Sofianos¹, Mária Habrmanová¹, Matej Harvát¹, Jitka Dobbersteinová¹
Organization(s): 1: Slovak Centre of Scientific and Technical Information
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2. Semantic Metadata Annotation Service
Julia Sasse¹,Johannes Darms¹, Juliane Fluck^1,2
Organization(s): 1: ZB MED – Information Centre for Life Sciences, Cologne, Bonn, Germany; 2: University of Bonn, Germany
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3. IIIF collections as Research Data – an Integrated Approach by the Zentralbibliothek Zürich
Elisabeth-Christine Gamer¹, Elias Kreyenbühl¹
Organization(s): 1: Zentralbibliothek Zürich
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4. Student Involvement in Open Science
Iris Smal¹, Hilbrand Wouters², Christeen Saparamadu³
Organization(s): 1: University of Amsterdam; 2: Utrecht University; 3: Technological University Dublin
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5. Open Energy Metadata: Publishing Energy Data Enriched with Ontology References
Christian Hofmann¹, Hannah Förster², Ludwig Hülk¹
Organization(s): 1: Reiner Lemoine Institut; 2: Öko-Institut
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6. A Road to Data Liberation in Helmholtz
Christine Lemster¹, Constanze Curdt¹, Sören Lorenz¹
Organization(s): 1: Geomar, Helmholtz Metadata Collaboration
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7. French Second National Plan for Open Science: Support and Opportunities for Universities’ Open Infrastructures and Practices.
Sophie Forcadell², Adeline Rege¹
Organization(s): 1: University of Strasbourg; 2: SciencesPo
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8. The First 6 Months of Open Science
Lynnee Marie Argabright¹, Allison Michelle Kittinger¹
Organization(s): 1: UNC-Wilmington
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9. Handling Machine-generated Statistics in Open Repositories
Tal Ayalon¹
Organization(s): 1: World Bank Group
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10. Open Access in Greece: Perceptions in Academic Institutions
Maria Frantzi¹, Athanasia Salamoura², Giannis Tsakonas¹
Organization(s): 1: Library & Information Center, University of Patras, Greece; 2: HEAL-Link, Scholarly Communication Unit, Greece
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11. An Increased Use of the Institutional Repository by Researchers from 7% to 45%: Lessons from the Open Access Campaign at the School of Economics and Business, University of Ljubljana.
Matic Bradač¹
Organization(s): 1: University of Ljubljana, School of Economics and Business (SEB LU)

12. Reflecting Open Practices on Digital Infrastructures
Johannes Hiebl¹, Tamara Heck¹, Sylvia Kullmann¹, Marc Rittberger¹
Organization(s): 1: DIPF | Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education
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13. Improving Community Funding and Workflows for Scholar-led Journals and Blogs
Marcel Wrzesinski¹, Philipp Hess²
Organization(s): 1: Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society; 2: Knowledge Unlatched
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More information about the accepted and presented contributions can be found here.