Benefits & requirements

Open Science

What are the benefits of OS for Science and Society?

  • Increasing trustworthiness and robustness of research
  • Ensuring validation, reproducibility and reusability of research results
  • Accelerating knowledge sharing, findability and permanent access to research information
  • Increasing (interdisciplinary) scientific discourse and widening cooperation
  • Supporting the recognition of new/alternative research assessment criteria
  • Safe costs and minimising efforts due to no licencing fees and the freedom to reuse research output
  • Enabling participation and inclusiveness

Requirements

Open mindset:

  • Inner attitude towards transparency and cooperation
  • Willingness to contribute and share with others
  • Responsibility and sensitivity for societal needs and well-founded decision making
  • Adaptational skills
  • Critical mind and willingness for discourse
  • Openness towards the cultural change in research and research assessment criteria

Basic knowledge:

  • Code of conduct on research integrity and good scientific practice (ALLEA – The European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity)
  • National, institutional and/or discipline specific policies and guidelines
  • Terms and concepts of Open Science
  • Related Methodologies
  • Information sources, training opportunities and support centres at research institutions as well as discipline specific material

What are the benefits for you?

  • Increasing the impact and visibility of your research outcomes
  • Avoiding duplication of work through reusing scientific results
  • Meeting the requirements of research funding agencies and research assessment criteria
  • Benefiting from an inter- and transdisciplinary research discourse and cooperation
  • Ensuring access to high quality research outcomes, also for less privileged scientists, around the globe
  • Providing valuable resources for learning and skills development
  • Incorporating societal needs in your research projects
  • Enhancing science- and knowledge-based decision making
  • Promoting the public good and democratising access to scientific knowledge and output

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