Open Science/Open Access Policies
What is an open science policy?
According to the UNESCO`s guide for open science policies, open science and open access policies can be defined as a set of guidelines, rules, regulations, laws, principles or directions designed to put open science values and principles into practice.
Open science policies can range from community to institutional and national to international policies.
Useful tools and resources in creating an open science policy
Open Policy Finder – Jisc: aggregates publishers` open access policies from around the world.
ROARMAP (Registry of Open Access Repositories Mandatory Archiving Policies): a searchable international registry charting the growth of open access mandates adopted by universities, research institutions and research funders that require their researchers to provide open access to their peer-reviewed research article output by depositing it in an open access repository.
Open Access Network: a collaborative project offering information and networking and connecting initiatives to advance and foster open access in research. It also provides guidelines on creating an open access policy.
Open science policies in Slovakia
Slovak Centre of Scientific and Technical Information prepared a methodology and an OS policy model:
Methodological Recommendations for Developing and Implementing an Institutional Open Science Policy for Research Performing Institutions and Open Science Policy Model
The documents provides the information and guidelines and instructions to design and implement an institutional open science policy. It also contains a model of an open science policy. It is intended for higher education institutions/universities, the Slovak Academy of Sciences and other research performing institutions.
Open science/Open access policies of Slovak institutions
- Politika otvoreného prístupu Univerzity Mateja Bela v Banskej Bystrici (Open Science Policy of Matej Bell University in Banská Bystrica)
- Inštitucionálna politika pre otvorenú vedu na Univerzite Pavla Jozefa Šafárika v Košiciach (Open Science Policy of Pavol Jozef Safarik University in Košice)
- Stratégia otvorenej vedy na Univerzite sv. Cyrila a Metoda v Trnave (Open Science Strategy of University of SS. Cyril and Methodius in Trnava)
- Politika otvorenej vedy v SAV (Open Science Policy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences)
- Inštitucionálna politika otvorenej vedy na Trnavskej univerzite v Trnave (Open Science Institutional Policy of Trnava University in Trnava)
Sources:
https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000383710/PDF/383710eng.pdf.multi
Methodological Recommendation on Developing and Implementing Institutional Open Science Policy for Research Performing Institutions (Metodické odporúčanie na tvorbu a implementáciu inštitucionálnej politiky otvorenej vedy pre inštitúcie vykonávajúce vedu a výskum). MINEDU, 2022.
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