Open Science Support as a Portfolio of Services and Projects: From Awareness to Engagement

Abstract

Together with many other universities worldwide, the University of Göttingen has aimed to unlock the full potential of networked digital scientific communication by strengthening open access as early as the late 1990s. Open science policies at the institutional level consequently followed and have been with us for over a decade. However, for several reasons, their adoption often is still far from complete when it comes to the practices of researchers or research groups. To improve this situation at our university, there is dedicated support at the infrastructural level: the university library collaborates with several campus units in developing and running services, activities and projects in support of open access and open science. This article outlines our main activity areas and aligns them with the overall rationale to reach higher uptake and acceptance of open science practice at the university. The mentioned examples of our activities highlight how we seek to advance open science along the needs and perspectives of diverse audiences and by running it as a multi-stakeholder endeavor. Therefore, our activities involve library colleagues with diverse backgrounds, faculty and early career researchers, research managers, as well as project and infrastructure staff. We conclude with a summary of achievements and challenges to be faced.

The perception of cons and pros on Open Science within Kuwait University Faculty members in the State of Kuwait.

“…2. Open Science Awareness: Schmidt, et al, (2018) highlights to take OS to the next level it needs researchers' awareness of the importance of openness and sharing, nevertheless, the development of their skills such as embracing innovative research practices. New prospects and challenges are built for researchers when research is enhanced digitally especially for Early Career Researchers (ECRs).…”

A landscape of open science policies research

“…Many institutions have started the development, adoption and implementation of open science policies mostly during the last ten years (Schmidt, et al, 2018;Kretser, et al, 2019).…”

“…Previous research has established that there is a gap in the implementation and adoption of open science policies (Kretser, et al, 2019;Armani, et al, 2020). Moreover, Schmidt, et al (2018) Strategies in different dimensions such as new metrics for science evaluation, development of infrastructures, legal frameworks are essential for an open science policy implementation (Santos, 2017).…”

Databrarian ed? Preparing Information Specialists for Participation in an Open Datafied Society

“…Additional open activities in libraries encompass open science (Schmidt et al, 2018), open infrastructure (Lewis et al, 2018) and linked open data (ARL, 2019;Ullah et al, 2018). Public librarians around the world are engaging with open government agenda and connecting their communities with open data, helping people to find, use, apply and publish local data, in their traditional roles as 'civic infomediaries' (Ayre and Craner, 2017;Robinson and Mather, 2017).…”