5 Takeaway points for Open Science Festival, Netherlands
The Open Science Festival at Vrij Universiteit Amsterdam inspired many ideas. Here are a few that struck me (mainly from the strategic rather than research practice perspective)
- To do open science properly, we need to break down the boundary between research and research support staff. The new roles required fit in between these old boundaries (Read https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01081-8)
- There’s a young, bubbling ecosystem of platforms, ideas to fundamentally change the process of publication. At the core of this is changing the position of peer review (good slides at https://zenodo.org/record/7040997) But, many outside the open science system are unaware of this, assuming that the journey is complete when are 100% of journals are open access
- How to achieve change? There are discussions over vision policies, strategies, seed funding, sustainability. The words used are different, but the notion of a fusion of too down and bottom up approaches is popular. (One good example at https://zenodo.org/record/702504)
- Change is not just about the world of science. For the benefits of open science to blossom, much better dialogue is needed with the broader public. Without dialogue, the risk of misunderstanding of (open) science will grow. (See https://zenodo.org/record/7038872 for more)
5. And nothing will really change without changing the incentives – how do we reward and recognise all staff involved in (open) science? (Dutch approach – https://recognitionrewards.nl/)
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