Open science - Enabling discovery in the digital age
Data-driven innovation and data-intensive science hold immense promise to address
grand societal challenges. Open science initiatives, which facilitate open access
to publications, data, algorithms, software and workflows, play an essential role
in accelerating needed scientific research and the innovation process itself. This
Going Digital Toolkit note provides an overview of the open science movement, highlights
achievements of open science including that in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic,
identifies challenges to achieving all of the benefits that open science has to offer,
and sheds light on the evolution of open science policies in a range of economies.
The note also advocates a way forward that involves the seven pillars of the revised
OECD Recommendation of the Council concerning Access to Research Data from Public
Funding: (1) Data governance for trust; (2) Technical standards and practices; (3)
Incentives and rewards; (4) Responsibility, ownership and stewardship; (5) Sustainable
infrastructures; (6) Human capital; and (7) International co-operation for access
to research data.
Published on July 20, 2021
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