Built to last! Embedding open science principles and practice into European universities
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The purpose of this article is to examine the cultural change needed by universities, as identified by LERU in its report Open Science and its role in universities: a roadmap for cultural change.1 It begins by illustrating the nature of that cultural change. Linked to that transformation is a necessary management change to the way in which organizations perform research. Competition is not the only, or necessarily the best, way to conduct this transformation. Open science brings to the fore the values of collaboration and sharing. Building on a number of Focus on Open Science Workshops held over five years across Europe, the article identifies best practice in changing current research practices, which will then contribute to the culture change necessary to deliver open science. Four case studies, delivered at Focus on Open Science Workshops or other conferences in Europe, illustrate the advances that are being made: the findings of a Workshop on Collaboration and Competition at the OAI 11 meeting in Geneva in June 2019; alternative publishing platforms, exemplified by UCL Press; open data, FAIR data and reproducibility; and a Citizen Science Workshop held at the LIBER Conference in Dublin in June 2019.
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- Authors
- Ignat, T., & Ayris, P.
- Affiliations
- University College London (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Ayris, Paul
- Venue
- Insights the UKSG journal
- Publisher
- Ubiquity Press, Ltd.
- Published
- 2020
- Volume
- 33
- ISSN
- 2048-7754 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W3009253785
- Cited by
- 32
- References
- 4
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 7 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 2
- FWCI
- 4.22
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- diamond
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Insights the UKSG journal (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
- Insights the UKSG journal (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Information Systems and Management › Academic Publishing and Open Access
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Research Data Management Practices
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Library Science and Information
- Keywords
- open science, research management, competition and cooperation, open data, FAIR data, reproducibility, citizen science, LIBER, European universities, research practices
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