Supporting Open Science in Serbia - OpenAIRE Blog

[A] More understanding from decision-makers in three directions:

(1) Rapid change of local regulations in the field of scientific publication/information:  in small scientific communities, such as Serbia, most of the finances come from the state budget. This means that they are the ones who dictate both: conditions and rules. The problem is that they often change their positions, and then it happens that we negotiate everything with them, but they change, and then everything starts from the beginning.

(2) Open Science costs:  although we have relied in this field on EC funds so far, the financial investment must also be made at the state level (eg. infrastructure, people, APC, etc.). I would like to point out that over 50 institutions and journal publishers in Serbia have recognized that they have to invest some funds for the Open Science (and they do it from their own funds), but there is no financial support at the national level.

(3) The lack of people with the skills that Open Science requires,  especially in the field of data management. For rapid progress and better support for the research community, we should already have recognized occupations such as data-stewards for example...."