Horizon Europe
While the EU’s Horizon 2020 research program primarily called for open access publications, the successor program Horizon Europe (2021 – 2027) has significantly expanded the requirements for research proposals. Here …
Course: Openness in Science and Innovation
Science Communication: Theory
In this session, we map the research field of science communication and learn about foundational theoretical concepts for science communication. Starting from the outdated deficit model of science communication, which …
Science Communication: Empirics
This second session will look at empirical trends in science communication, specifically two: 1) Internal communication processes are becoming public, and 2) Many sciences have many publics. With respect to …
Science Communication: Practice
In this final session, we look at the basic pillars of a science communication and impact strategy, based on the Research Impact Canvas (Fecher & Kobsda 2018). The Research Impact …
Additional Materials
Here you find a list of recommendations on different topics. However, some materials are in German. Khoo, Shaun Yon-Seng (2019): Article Processing Charge Hyperinflation and Price Insensitivity: An Open Access …
Introduction to this week
Welcome to the last week of the course! Watch this introduction to understand the link between Open Science and the need for communication and dissemination of research.
Introduction to Science Communication
First, watch the video to get to know your lecturer, Dr. Benedikt Fecher from the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society in Berlin (Germany). You will furthermore get …
Open Innovation: Getting More Research Results to the Market
It was the EU commission under Jean-Claude Junker with his research commissioner Carlos Moedas who in 2015 integrated the concept of “Openness” into EU research policy. They coined the vision …
What is Wrong with Publish-or-Perish Culture?
The next video is about publish-or-perish culture, which is built on two rules: Publish as many articles as possible, and publish them in journals with the highest possible impact factor, …
Resources on Open Access
Resources used in week 7 arXiv. arXiv [Online]. Available at: https://arxiv.org/ (Accessed: 29-06-2022). Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities. (2003). Berlin Declaration on Open …
Barriers Mean it’s not Open
Non-commercial licences in academia Not all Creative Commons licences meet the criterion of an open licence, since re-use can be restricted in some ways. If you would like to share …
Transforming the Scholarly Publishing System
Open access secures accessibility to all kinds of output and information, including text publications, research data, educational resources, software as well as methods and evaluation processes. By opening up all …
Why Multistakeholder, why new Actors in the Research Process?
This fourth video discusses a paper by Michael Gibbons from 1999. It’s title is “Science’s new social contract with society.” This paper is probably the starting point of the Open …
What Combination of Licences Exist?
The 6 licence options require that appropriate credit is given to the authors by naming them as creators and linking them to the applicable licence. The licences are based on …
Deeper Reasons for Open Science: Open Science is Better Science
The OPEN SCIENCE CONFERENCE Paris took place in Paris in February 2022. At this conference a number of talks were given that are closely related to what we want to …