Questionnaire for inputs into the development of the UNESCO Open Science Recommendation Survey

Are you a scientist, a publisher, a science policy maker or someone with experience and interest in Open Science? Your input is important to us.

Please participate in the online survey (link is external), designed to collect inputs for the development of the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science.

The questionnaire is also available for download.  It can be filled offline and sent to us by email at:  openscience@unesco.org (link sends e-mail).

Background:

The Open Science movement has emerged from the scientific community and has rapidly spread across nations, calling for the opening of the gates of knowledge. Investors, entrepreneurs, policy makers and citizens are joining this call. However, in the fragmented scientific and policy environment, a global understanding of the meaning, opportunities and challenges of Open Science is still missing. UNESCO, as the United Nations Agency with a mandate for Science, is the legitimate global organization enabled to build a coherent vision of Open Science and a shared set of overarching principles and shared values. That is why, at the 40th session of UNESCO’s General Conference, 193 Member States tasked the Organization with the development of an international standard-setting instrument on Open Science in the form of a UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science. The Recommendation is expected to define shared values and principles for Open Science, and identify concrete measures on Open Access and Open Data, with proposals to bring citizens closer to science and commitments facilitating the production and dissemination of scientific knowledge around the world. It will be developed through a regionally balanced, multistakeholder, inclusive and transparent consultation process.