The Student Statement on The Right to Research (R2RC) (2025), Right to Research Coalition (R2RC)
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The Student Statement on The Right to Research (R2RC) (2025), Right to Research Coalition (R2RC)
What is this about?
The Student Statement on The Right to Research (R2RC) (2025), produced by the Right to Research Coalition, provides an international framework for open science and open access, particularly relevant for North America. 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 statement links openness to research quality, reproducibility, equitable access, and faster translation of knowledge, especially 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 include funding acknowledgment, rights retention, and budgeting, while justified embargoes and exceptions for sensitive or security-relevant data are transparently documented. The document encourages enabling infrastructure—repositories, registries, discovery services—and aligns with international 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. Implementation relies on planning, institutional support, and funder-backed infrastructure. The statement serves as a practical reference, checklist, and benchmark for transparency, reproducibility, and alignment with global norms.
