White Paper: Open Science in a Digital Republic

[From the Preface] ... In this regard, two key observations serve as the guiding thread to the two phases of this White Paper. Firstly, the review of the current situation on uses suggests a pressing need to catch up, where today, the digital uses of science currently lag behind the major emerging and/or established practices in the leading countries of science. A second key idea concerns the direction of the changes under way: moving towards a "right of shared resources and protected uses" might broadly summarise the proposals and recommendations of the White Paper ...