Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information

We are heading towards the first meeting of the community of signatories and supporters of the Barcelona Declaration at the end of September, hosted by Sorbonne Université. Great to see the Coimbra Group getting ready for the meeting and looking forward to hearing about their part in the community vision. There is a very full program of interventions from across the world from data providers, funders, and most importantly from the users and purchasers of systems underpinning research information. See the full program here: https://lnkd.in/euV2n-2c

One of the motivations behind the Barcelona Declaration is to make research evaluation more flexible, contextualised and adaptable to support different kinds of research, through making sure that the underlying data can be used in novel and innovative ways. Check out this new paper on "Ten simple rules for recognizing data and software contributions in hiring, promotion, and tenure" which includes in Rule 9: Leverage existing open tools "Following recent developments in research evaluation (e.g., the launch of the Open Edition of the Leiden Ranking), and in alignment with the commitments set forth by the Barcelona Declaration on open research information, we recommend using existing open infrastructure that enables transparent access to the underlying metadata." https://lnkd.in/gV4bKd4A

Very happy to welcome the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) https://lnkd.in/d-vGjxEZ to our list of supporters - looking forward to collaborating on the agenda of open research information! https://lnkd.in/dehuwbvH

🛠️PSA: If you registered and/or sent in an abstract for the Paris Conference on Open Research Information (Sept 23-24) and have not heard back from us, please let us know at conference@barcelona-declaration.org https://lnkd.in/euV2n-2c

This week, both the Young European Research Universities Network (YERUN) YERUN - Young European Research Universities and Universities of the Netherlands (UNL) Universiteiten van Nederland became signatories of the Barcelona Declaration. - great to see support for open research information from these university networks !

The European University Association Welcomes the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information The EUA has been a force for progressive change amongst universities in both Europe and globally including leadership in the drafting of the Agreement on Reforming Research Assessment and the formation of Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment. This week the EUA posted on the Barcelona Declaration saying: "EUA welcomes the call to promote the openness of research information as a way to advance responsible research assessment and Open Science and to promote unbiased high-quality decision making[...]Supporting the transition towards the openness of research information will contribute to developing a just scholarly publishing ecosystem, fostering the adoption of FAIR research data, and implementing responsible research assessment practices. The principles promoted in the Barcelona Declaration also echo EUA’s advocacy for a more holistic approach to openness in research and the commitment to develop responsible, inclusive, transparent and sustainable evaluation practices for research activities and careers." https://lnkd.in/gtPGqDB4

Nell'ambito delle iniziative della Barcelona Declaration a scala nazionale, trovate qui (https://lnkd.in/gsMrakPV) le slides e il video (https://lnkd.in/gxJX6U7t) del webinar organizzato dall'Università di Bologna e dall'Università di Milano giovedì 4 luglio. Altre iniziative a scala nazionale si stanno organizzando, e incoraggiamo tutte le organizzazioni firmatarie o interessate a supportare la Barcelona Declaration a promuovere queste iniziative per favorire un confronto reale sulle sfide e opportunità di questa transizione alle informazioni aperte sulla ricerca. As part of the Barcelona Declaration national initiatives, here are the slides (https://lnkd.in/gsMrakPV) and video (https://lnkd.in/gxJX6U7t) of the webinar organised by the University of Bologna and the University of Milan on Thursday 4 July. Other national initiatives are being organised and we encourage all organisations that are signatories or interested in supporting the Barcelona Declaration to promote these initiatives in order to foster a real debate on the challenges and opportunities of this transition to open research information.

Reminder that registration for the Paris Conference on Open Research Information (for signatories and supporters of the Barcelona Declaration) is open until July 10 - just a few more days! Also consider submitting a presentation abstract! https://lnkd.in/euV2n-2c

Three more translations of the Barcelona Declaration have been published! The Declaration is now also available in German, Greek and Russian: https://lnkd.in/eHrZ4XN8 Many thanks to the people who provided these translations: - Christian Hauschke and other TIB – Leibniz-Informationszentrum Technik und Naturwissenschaften und Universitätsbibliothek colleagues (German) - Georgia Psychrami (Greek) - Dmitry Kochetkov (Russian)

Partecipa al Webinar Italiano sulla Barcelona Declaration, 4 luglio 2024, h 14.00-15.30 online