The State of Open Data survey continues to provide a detailed and sustained insight into the motivations, challenges, perceptions, and behaviors of researchers towards open data. Now in its ninth year, the survey is a collaboration between Figshare, Digital Science and Springer Nature. Uniquely this .../...

In September of 2024 signatories, supporters and parties interested in the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information met at Sorbonne University, in Paris to discuss next steps in taking the agenda of the Declaration forward. In a two day hybrid in-person and online meeting, participants .../...

This survey report offers a descriptive analysis of the role that public research funding and performing organisations in Europe play in the shifting landscape of open science and research assessment reform. As these issues gain increasing attention from both the research community and policy makers .../...

This report is the first in a series, the overall objective of which is to provide a better understanding of the links between the worlds of open government data, open science and education, which are tightly interrelated but seem to be often disconnected from each other in their current activities .../...

This report puts forward a vision for Open Research Europe as a collective non-profit open access publishing service for the public good. This vision comes in the midst of important policy developments towards more equitable, transparent and sustainable costs for publishing and access to content, .../...

Open science is an approach aimed at making scientific research more transparent, accessible and collaborative. In the spirit of fostering collaborative research and innovation which are the core goals of Horizon Europe, the EU’s key funding programme for research and innovation, open science .../...

The 2nd Diamond Open Access Conference brought together stakeholders from around the globe to explore, discuss, and share insights on the diamond open access scholarly communication ecosystem. This report reflects the mission of the conference to showcase good practices and policies from all over .../...

Open science practices are on the rise but access to, participation in and sharing of the benefits from open science are uneven across the world. 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.
 

Open science refers to an approach to the scientific process based on cooperative work and new ways of disseminating knowledge, improving accessibility to and re-usability of research outputs by using digital technologies and new collaborative tools. Invited by the European Commission, EU Member .../...

This study analyses the possible impact of three major legislative instruments in the European Strategy for data (the Open Data Directive, the Data Governance Act and the proposed Data Act) for the field of research, especially for research performing organisations and research funding organisations. .../...

The study researches the value created by open data in Europe. It is the second study by the European Data Portal, following the 2015 report. The open data market size is estimated at €184 billion and forecast to reach between €199.51 and €334.21 billion in 2025. The report additionally .../...

Guía de recomendaciones y buenas prácticas para la apertura y compartición de datos en el entorno empresarial, elaborada por el Grupo de Trabajo de Cotec en Datos Abiertos. Este trabajo pretende ser una herramienta para acompañar a todas aquellas compañías .../...