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STEPI issued Trend and Issue(No.22)
BY :Jong-guk Song DATE :2015-11-18 HIT :4,679
Recent Agendas and Implications of OECD on Open Science
The Science and Technology Policy Institute (STEPI, President Jong-guk Song) issued Trends and Issues (No 22), entitled ‘Recent Agendas and Implications of OECD on Open Science. ’Based on the report, “Making Open Science a Reality,” which was used as a core reference at OECD Ministerial Meeting Daejeon 2015, this report analyzes the recent trends of Open Science in OECD countries and suggests implications for future policies.
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※ Open Science: Refers to open research standards that promote the release and sharing of research resources in the field of sciences. Recently, the OECD Open Science Project has focused on improving the accessibility to the results of public research including publications and data. |
Since the early 2000s, for OECD countries, Open Science has begun to emerge as a global policy agenda beyond a theoretical topic thanks to Internet services and digital research resources.
At OECD Ministerial Meeting Daejeon 2015, which was held in Daejeon in October, the promotion of Open Science was discussed as a core agenda.
This report overviews the basic status of Open Science projects including their key objectives, structure, and participants, and introduces OECD countries’ recent policy trends of Open Science.
According to the report, OECD countries have developed many plans and programs to promote Open Science, and, in addition to the government of each country, a variety of agencies including funding companies, nonprofit foundations, researchers, universities, joint research centers, libraries, and publishers have actively participated in OECD Open Science projects.
The main implementation methods of OECD Open Science projects have been spread focusing on mandates requiring participants to open the results of public research as well as the voluntary Open Science policies with incentives or infrastructure support.
To increase the practicality of OECD Open Science, the report suggests governments and agencies to highlight the principles of Open Science projects again, to additionally make investments and practices on open data, to prepare incentives and relevant policies to enhance scientific competencies, to arrange legal and physical infrastructures, to secure financial sustainability in the long term, and to specialize in manpower and technologies.
Dr. Eun-jung Shin, the author of this report, emphasizes that this report is a timely resource for the Korean government to establish domestic Open Science policies, while the OECD report (2015) overviews how the standards on Open Science are implemented globally.
This report is available for download at the STEPI website (www.stepi.re.kr).
Contact: Eun-jung Shin, Associate Research Fellow of Division for Innovation Policy Research /
044-287-2169 / ejshin@stepi.re.kr
