What is Open Science about?
Open Science brings together practices, principles, and services that aim to democratize scientific knowledge. It seeks greater transparency, more collaboration, and increased information sharing among research teams, institutions, and society. It covers all disciplines and every stage of the research cycle.
Pillars
Support infrastructures
Platforms, repositories, catalogs, data management plans, persistent identifiers (DOI, ORCID, ROR), and services that ensure long-term preservation and access.
Dialogue with other knowledge systems
Recognition of different ways of producing knowledge (for example, local, professional, or community knowledge) and respectful integration in scientific decision-making.
Collaborative participation
Inclusion of other social actors beyond academia: citizens, local communities, productive sectors, public administrations… Citizen science and co-creation of knowledge.
Open scientific knowledge
Publications, data, software, research methods, and materials are shared with clear licenses so they can be located, cited, and reused.
Benefits
Why adopting open practices benefits the entire community
Greater visibility and impact
Your results receive more citations and reuse.
Reuse and scientific acceleration
It prevents repeating work already done and facilitates new collaborations.
Transparency and public trust
Anyone can see what was done, how it was done, and the evidence behind it.
Efficiency in public investment
Data funded with public resources returns to society.
Regulatory compliance
It supports compliance with funders' mandates and evaluation agencies' requirements.
Open innovation
It facilitates knowledge transfer and new technological and social solutions.
Practices
Tools and processes that are implemented from the beginning of the project
Open access to scientific publications
Open research data
Data Management Plans (DMPs)
Persistent identifiers (DOI, ORCID, ROR)
Open licences and rights management
Responsible assessment
Open software and reproducibility
Citizen science and social participation
Guide
Tools and processes that are implemented from the beginning of the project
Define your openness strategy
Identify which project outputs (publications, data, software) can be made open and under which legal/ethical conditions.
Create your Data Management Plan
From the beginning of the project, describe how you will document, share, and preserve the data.
Deposit in trusted repositories
Use official repositories and catalogues that assign persistent identifiers (e.g., DOI) and ensure preservation.
Document with clear metadata
Include README files, descriptions, methodologies, software versions, code used, and access conditions.
Measure and communicate
Monitor what percentage of your output is openly available and share it in reports, scientific documentation, the project website, etc.
Recommendations and Policies
Frequently Asked Questions
Do you have specific questions about your project? Consult the support service at your institution.
