Diese Woche befassten sich die EU-Wissenschaftsminister:innen im Rahmen der schwedischen EU-Ratspräsidentschaft mit der Weiterentwicklung von Open Science in Europa.
Im Vorfeld der Sitzung wurden zwei lesenswerte Briefing Papers veröffentlicht. In diesen werden die Themenfelder Infrastrukturen für Forschungsdaten (PDF) und Open Access (PDF) behandelt. In dem Papier zu Open Access wird die Frage nach der zukünftigen Gestaltung der zukünftigen digitalen Wissenschaftskommunikation gestellt:
“In the current system for scholarly publishing, the increasing costs for scholarly publishing associated with certain business models may cause inequality in the scientific communities and may also become unsustainable for public research funders and institutions accountable for the spending of public funds. What measures have already been taken and what other shared actions could be taken at national or European level to avoid situations where researchers, due to financial capacities rather than quality criteria, are limited in their choice of publication channels, and where they, as well as the broader public, due to paywalls, are locked out from accessing research publications?”
Eine Pressemitteilung fasst die Ergebnisse zusammen.
“For many years, there has been intensive work on making publications openly published on the internet, and the share of articles published openly has gradually risen. However, there are issues needed to be dealt with, for example the high costs of publishing and of reading articles. Another issue is the fact that some journals don’t have good enough processes for securing the quality of the publications,” so der schwedische Bildungsminister Mats Persson.
Angekündigt wurden eine Positionierung zu Open Science, als Schlussfolgerung des EU-Rates, im Mai sowie eine Erklärung zur Forschungsinfrastrukturen im Juni.
In den „Conclusions“ werden auch einige Maßnahmen des lesenswerten „Amsterdam Call for Action on Open Science“ (
Weiter kündigen die G7-Wissenschaftsministerinnen und -ministern in dem „Communiqué“ die Einsetzung einer Arbeitsgruppe an, die sich u. a. mit Praktiken und Anreizen für Open Science befassen soll.
in the EU Member States as well as Norway and Turkey. Concerning open access to scientific peer-reviewed publications, most EU Member States reported a national preference for one or the other type of open access to publications, that is, either the Green or the Gold model. However, the expressed preferences for one or the other model are not pure models whereby only one route is followed. Overall, policies on open access to research data are less developed across EU countries than policies and strategies on open access to research publications. However, individual Member State feedback shows a general acknowledgement of the importance of open research data and of policies. As concerns the curation and preservation of scientific information, institutional repositories are very well developed in most Member States, although certification is sometimes lacking. Concerning participation in multi-stakeholder dialogues and activities, several countries have set up national coordination bodies or networks. Others rely on a university or a university library (or an association of libraries), their Research Promotion Agency/Research Councils or their Academy of Science. Specific events or dedicated EU fora and/or projects have also been identified as a way to galvanize stakeholder interaction.“
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