Webinar 4 | Open Science
- Vincent Larivière, University of Montreal
- Tony Ross-Hellauer, TU Graz, Know-Center
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Open Science has been established as a key priority by policy actors at national, regional and international level (e.g. ministries of higher education and research; European Commission; UNESCO), with the ambitions to improve the quality and impact of the knowledge being produced while at the same time changing research practices both in terms of knowledge production and dissemination. This growing commitments to Open Science has led to an increasing amount of debates within the higher education sector on how to achieve this openness as well as incentives for universities and higher education stakeholders more widely to propose solutions to meet ambitious expectations regarding: Open access to research data, processes, outputs and publications to make them more widely available and guaranteeing more fluid circulation across the research landscape and for relevant stakeholders outside of academia; Collaborations across universities globally and with industry and civil society; Management and protection of research data. Despite these commitments, there remains debates on the type of regulations that should be established defining the degree of Openness that should be promoted in order to find a balance between accessibility and protection of research data and researchers, and the type of support and training required for university communities as a whole (students, academic, managerial administrative staff) to achieve these ambitious objectives.
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This webinar is part of the CGHE webinar series on ‘Research on Research’, based on the CGHE Research on Research project. Find out more about other webinars from this series here.
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Vincent Larivière holds the UNESCO Chair for Open Science and is a full professor at the Faculty of Library and Information Sciences at the University of Montreal, where he teaches research methods in information sciences and bibliometrics. Vincent is also scientific director of the Érudit platform, deputy scientific director of the Science and Technology Observatory, full member of the Interuniversity Research Center in Science and Technology and associate vice-rector for communication and strategic planning. He holds a BSc in Science, Technology and Society (UQAM), an MSc in History of Science (UQAM) and a PhD in Information Sciences (McGill), and also completed a postdoctoral internship at the Department of Information and Library Science at the Indiana University.
Tony Ross-Hellauer is leader of the Open and Reproducible Research Group (ORRG) at TU Graz and Senior Researcher at Know-Center. An Information Scientist with a background in philosophy and open science infrastructures, his research focuses on a range of issues related to open science evaluation, skills, policy, governance, monitoring and infrastructure. He is currently coordinator of the EC Horizon Europe project TIER2, researching issues of epistemic diversity in the reproducibility of research and International Advisory Committee member for the UK Reproducibility Network.
