Open Science (Open Access) - European Commission
lterrat's bookmarks 2017-05-03
Summary:
"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.
Nowadays, it is widely recognised that making research results more accessible contributes to better and more efficient science, and to innovation in the public and private sectors. In 2012, the European Commission encouraged all EU Member States to put public-funded research results in the public sphere in order to make science better and strengthen their knowledge-based economy, via a Recommendation.
Science has always been open, unlike the processes for producing research and diffusing its results.
As other challenges need to be addressed such as infrastructure, intellectual property rights, content-mining and alternative metrics, but also inter-institutional, inter-disciplinary and international collaboration among all actors in research and innovation, the European Commission is now moving decisively from ‘Open access’ into the broader picture of ‘Open science’.
This is reflected in the Science with and for Society work programme of Horizon 2020 with calls addressing text and data mining, and innovative approach to release and disseminate research results and measure their impact.
Elements of ‘Open science’ will also gradually feed into the shaping of a policy for Responsible Research and Innovation and contribute to the realisation of the European Research Area and the Innovation Union, the two main flagship initiatives for research and innovation."