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The policy makes openness the default for research in Austria, aiming for work to be ''as open as possible, as closed as necessary''. It requires open access to publications (via repositories or open journals), encourages Creative Commons licensing, persistent identifiers, and FAIR data practices. Researchers, institutions, funders, and publishers all have clear responsibilities: planning for openness from the start, retaining rights, acknowledging funding, and supporting repositories and infrastructure. Exceptions for sensitive or commercial data are allowed but must be justified transparently. The policy ties openness to research quality, reproducibility, equity, and global alignment (e.g., Plan S, EOSC). Monitoring focuses on the quality of openness—metadata, licensing, transparency—rather than just publication counts. Equity and responsible openness are emphasized, with safeguards for ethics, privacy, and inclusion. Overall, it provides practical, coherent guidance for Austrian stakeholders to comply with and benefit from open science.
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The Czech Academy of sciences comprises 54 research institutions that perform a broad range of research. The CAS encourages high quality research and the dissemination of results to the widest extent possible, so that its relevance and reach are maximized. Accordingly, member institutions are encouraged to adopt an open access policy. +
Open Access in Germany (2013), Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung/ Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) +
Open Access in Germany (2013), produced by the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF), is a national policy written in German and aimed at stakeholders in Germany. It sets openness as the default principle, balanced by ethics, privacy, intellectual property, and security, under the maxim “as open as possible, as closed as necessary.” The policy links open access to improving research quality, reproducibility, speed of dissemination, and equitable access to knowledge, particularly for communities lacking subscription access. Key elements include clear compliance routes for open access to publications, Creative Commons licensing, persistent identifiers, and depositing manuscripts or versions of record in trusted repositories. It also promotes FAIR data principles, data management plans, and transparent exceptions for sensitive or commercial data. Operational guidance assigns responsibilities to researchers, institutions, funders, and publishers, emphasizing rights retention, acknowledgment of funding, and justified embargo use. Infrastructure such as repositories, registries, and discovery tools supports compliance, while monitoring relies on reporting and progress indicators. The policy stresses responsible openness, equity, and multilingual communication, with safeguards for personal and sensitive data. For researchers, librarians, funders, and policymakers, it provides a coherent, actionable framework that aligns German practice with international standards. Published in 2013, it remains a benchmark for institutional policies, training, and grant documentation. +
Open Science - A practical guide for early-career researchers (2023), Brinkman, L., Dijk, E., de Jonge, H., Loorbach, N., & Rutten, D. +
Open Science, a Practical Guide for Early-Career Researchers (2023), produced in the Netherlands, provides actionable guidance to make research outputs as open as possible while respecting ethics, privacy, intellectual property, and security. It covers open access to publications, preferred Creative Commons licensing, deposition in trusted repositories, persistent identifiers, and FAIR-aligned data management plans. Researchers, institutions, funders, and publishers share responsibilities: planning for openness, retaining rights, acknowledging funding, providing infrastructure and training, and supporting interoperability. Limited embargoes or exceptions for sensitive data must be transparently justified. The guide emphasizes equity, zero-embargo access, multilingual communication, and minimizing publication costs, while prioritizing the quality of openness metadata, reproducibility, and machine-readability over publication counts. It aligns with international initiatives such as Plan S and EOSC, and provides practical examples, FAQs, and workflows. By consolidating dispersed rules into a coherent framework, it helps early-career researchers comply efficiently and contribute to a transparent, inclusive research ecosystem in the Netherlands. +
The Open Science Manifesto (2019), produced by OSCDnet, provides an international framework for open science and open access. Written in English, it translates high-level principles into actionable guidance for researchers, institutions, funders, and publishers worldwide, promoting openness as the default while respecting ethics, privacy, intellectual property, and security. The manifesto links openness to research quality, reproducibility, equitable access, and faster translation of knowledge, particularly for communities with limited subscription access. Core elements include open access to publications with preferred licensing (e.g., Creative Commons), deposition in trusted repositories, FAIR data principles, and comprehensive data management plans. Responsibilities for authors and institutions cover funding acknowledgment, rights retention, and budgeting, while justified embargoes and exceptions for sensitive data are transparently documented. It encourages enabling infrastructure repositories, registries, discovery services and aligns with initiatives such as Plan S and the European Open Science Cloud. Assessment emphasizes the quality of openness, including machine-readable metadata, persistent identifiers, and sharing of methods, code, and data. Equity, multilingual communication, and capacity building are emphasized to prevent reinforcing disparities. Implementation relies on early planning, institutional support, and funder-backed infrastructure. The manifesto serves as a practical reference, checklist, and benchmark, supporting compliance, transparency, reproducibility, and alignment with global norms. +
Open Science Platform (2018), Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia (MESTD) +
The Open Science Platform (2018), issued by Serbia’s Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, sets national guidance to make research outputs openly available, with openness as the default but balanced against ethics, privacy, intellectual property, and security. It requires open access to publications via trusted repositories, promotes Creative Commons licensing, persistent identifiers, and FAIR-aligned data management, and assigns responsibilities across researchers, institutions, funders, and publishers. Exceptions for sensitive or commercial data are allowed but must be transparently justified. The policy supports adoption through infrastructures such as repositories and registries, aligns with international initiatives like Plan S and EOSC, and emphasizes the quality of openness metadata, interoperability, reproducibility over output counts. It also highlights equity by encouraging zero-embargo access, lowering financial barriers, and supporting multilingual communication. Implementation is grounded in clear roles, reporting, and monitoring, making the platform a coherent and practical framework that links Serbia’s open science practices to global standards. +
This hub outlines the Research Council of Norway’s approach to open science, covering open access to publications, sharing and re‑use of research data, assessment of open science practices in grant applications, and national participation in the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). It sets the principle of “as open as possible, as closed as necessary,” grounded in FAIR data and responsible openness. Researchers funded by the Council must prepare data management plans;deposit articles open access through compliant routes;and, where appropriate, make datasets available via trusted repositories with persistent identifiers. The site links to practical guidance for data management planning, licensing and rights, and explains exceptions for sensitive or security‑relevant data. It also describes how open science is operationalised in evaluations: applicants are assessed on sharing plans, use of preprints where suitable, and practices that support transparency and reproducibility. Additional pages provide advice on open access routes (gold, diamond and repository‑based), costs and compliance tips, and Norway’s coordination with EOSC to align infrastructure and policy. Collectively, the pages function as a living manual for researchers and administrators navigating policy, compliance and best practice.<div><div><div><div></div><div><div><div><div></div></div></div><div></div><div></div><div><div><div><div><div></div></div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div> +
Open access policy for IDRC-funded project results (2015), International Development Research Centre (IDRC) +
The IDRC Open Access Policy (2015) sets expectations that results from IDRC-funded projects be made openly available, with openness as the default but balanced against ethics, privacy, intellectual property, and security. It requires open access to publications (preferably under Creative Commons licences), deposition in trusted repositories, FAIR-aligned data management, and clear rights retention. Responsibilities are shared: researchers must plan for openness and acknowledge funding, institutions should provide training and infrastructure, funders support core systems, and publishers ensure interoperability and author rights. While limited exceptions are allowed for sensitive or commercial data, these must be justified transparently. The policy emphasises equity, zero-embargo access where feasible, and inclusive practices such as multilingual communication, while monitoring focuses on the quality of openness metadata, reproducibility, and accessibility rather than output counts. +
This project aims to combine social and natural science methodology to assess whether open data can improve research transparency, reproducibility and discovery. The main focus of the project are the fields of ecology and evolution. +
This online training regards research ethics. It contains introduction to research ethics, ethics in planning and conducting of the research as well as in sharing of the research results. +
Open science and research leads to surprising discoveries and creative insights (2014), Ministry of Education and Culture +
The Open science and research leads to surprising discoveries and creative insights (2014) strategy, published by Finland’s Ministry of Education and Culture in Finnish and English, is a national resource providing guidance for researchers, institutions, funders, publishers, and policymakers. It establishes openness as the default in research, following the maxim “as open as possible, as closed as necessary,” while balancing ethical, privacy, intellectual property, and security concerns. The document connects open science with higher research quality, reproducibility, faster knowledge transfer, and fairer access, especially for communities with limited subscription options. It outlines key practices such as open access publishing, Creative Commons licensing, persistent identifiers, repository deposition, FAIR data principles, and data management plans that define stewardship, metadata, and repository selection. Roles and responsibilities are specified: authors retain rights and acknowledge funding;institutions provide training and repositories;funders support infrastructure;publishers ensure rights, interoperability, and machine-readable metadata. Embargoes and sensitive data restrictions are permitted only with transparent justification, supported by governance mechanisms such as ethics oversight and data access committees. Infrastructure like repositories, registries, and discovery services ensures compliance and visibility, while assessment emphasizes the ''quality of openness''—metadata, persistent links, transparent methods, and, where appropriate, data and code sharing. The strategy reduces ambiguity, aligns national practice with international norms, and serves as both a benchmark for policy and a practical checklist for researchers. +
Open science and research leads to surprising discoveries and creative insights (2014), Ministry of Education and Culture +
''Open Science and Research Leads to Surprising Discoveries and Creative Insights'' (2014), published by Finland’s Ministry of Education and Culture, sets out national expectations for open science and open access, aligning local practice with international principles. Written in Finnish and English, it positions openness as the default, balanced by ethics, privacy, intellectual property, and security, and promotes the principle of being “as open as possible, as closed as necessary.” The document highlights open access publishing via trusted repositories, Creative Commons licensing, persistent identifiers, and FAIR data principles supported by data management plans. It assigns responsibilities to researchers, institutions, and funders, covering rights retention, funding acknowledgments, and justified embargoes for sensitive cases. Infrastructure, such as repositories, discovery services, and research information systems, underpins compliance and visibility. Equity and responsible openness are cross-cutting themes, stressing affordability, multilingual communication, and safeguards for sensitive or Indigenous data. Serving as a benchmark and checklist, it offers actionable steps to improve transparency, reproducibility, and equitable access in Finland. +
Open science can be a powerful tool to bridge the existing science, technology and innovation gaps, to accelerate the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals and to promote the fulfillment of the human right to science.
With a growing number of countries charting their paths towards more open, inclusive and accessible science systems, it has become crucial to undertake a comprehensive global assessment of open science to gauge its impact, identify challenges and lay the groundwork for future progress.
This publication is the first endeavour to assess the state of open science at the global level in line with the 2021 UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science +
This case describes an instance of fake peer review by a company that was hired by the authors of the paper to submit the paper. They suggested two high profile reviewers upon submission, which turned out to be fake. After the discovery of this practice, the paper was retracted from the journal. +
This guide gives definition of study limitations and describes what types of limitations there are. It also emphasizes importance of reporting them and provides advices with regards to that. +
This manual provides practical guidance on how to prepare to conduct a blended learning train-the trainerprogram in research integrity. +
This manual provides practical guidance on how to prepare to conduct a blended learning train-the trainerprogram in research integrity. This training builds on a virtue-based approach to research integrity and aims to support the adoption of the principles and practices outlined in the European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity (ECoC). The program is composed of offline and online modules. +
Bu alıştırma, somut durumlarda araştırma doğruluğu kavramının ne ifade ettiğinin her zaman net olmadığı,özellikle de araştırma doğruluğunun risk altında olduğu somut durumlarda erdemli davranışların nasıl göründüğünün tam olarak belli olmadığı varsayımına dayanmaktadır. Erdemler genellikle iki ekstrem uç arasındaki orta nokta olarak tanımlanmaktadır. Örneğin, cesaret,korkaklık ve pervasızlık uçları arasında bulunan bir erdemdir. Bu alıştırmanın amacı, araştırma doğruluğu (AD) ile ilişkili erdemlerin günlük araştırma uygulamalarınızdaki pratik manalarının nüanslarına eleştirel bir bakış açısı sunmaktır. +
Bu alıştırmada, klinik etik kapsamında duygulara ilişkin Aristotelesçi bir ahlaki sorgulama yönteminden esinlenilmiştir. Aristoteles’e göre, erdemler iki ekstrem uç arasındaki orta nokta olarak tanımlanmaktadır. Bu nedenle, somut durumlarda araştırma doğruluğu kavramının ne ifade ettiği her zaman net olmayabilmektedir. Orta Yol alıştırmasının odak noktası katılımcıların araştırma doğruluğu (AD) ile ilişkili erdemlerin günlük araştırma uygulamalarındaki pratik manalarının nüanslarına eleştirel bir biçimde bakmalarını sağlamaktır. Alıştırma içerisinde katılımcılar cesaret, hesap verebilirlik, dürüstlük gibi Araştırma Doğruluğu ile ilişkili erdemler ve erdemli davranış sergilemenin ne anlama geldiği üzerine fikir yürütecektir. +
This is a thick description of two different cases at two different drug companies. Lundbeck's boss, Ulf Wiinberg resigned after financial conflict of interests, and breaches of the company's code of conduct. A former Novartis researcher - Igor Dzura - committed research misconduct in 6 papers funded by various federal agencies in the USA. +
