Den 9. marts 2018 vedtog SDU en Open Science Policy for universitetet. Den 31. oktober 2024 gennemgik SDU politikken, som nu består af følgende nøgleudsagn:
- Forskningsdata er anerkendt som en værdifuld ressource, og en Data Management Plan (DMP) betragtes som en væsentlig del af ethvert større forskningsprojekt. Håndteringen af forskningsdata bør afspejle bedste praksis, integritets kodeks, sikkerhedsovervejelser, og etiske protokoller (herunder fortrolighed og privatliv) inden for det respektive forskningsfelt. Den skal følge FAIR-principperne (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable), overholde den nationale strategi for datahåndtering baseret på FAIR-principperne og den Danish Code of Conduct for Research Integrity.
- Publikationer og relevante forskningsdata gøres så åbne, som fornuftigt for at bidrage til videnskabens fremskridt, for at fremskynde gennembrud, for at bane vejen for nye innovationer, der forbedrer samfundet og for at understøtte forskningsresultater og gennemsigtighed.
- Information og forskningsdata opbevares så lukket, som det er nødvendigt, dvs. for at respektere ophavsrettigheder, fortrolighedsaftaler, kontraktlige, juridiske (herunder GDPR) og etiske forpligtelser eller regler, for at beskytte fremtidige kommercialiseringsmuligheder og sikre, at uønsket vidensoverførsel, der kan påvirke den nationale sikkerhed ikke finder sted.
- Der udvælges passende formater, og der indgås passende aftaler mht. langsigtet bevarelse af videnskabeligt output, herunder forskningsdata, der overholder projektaftaler.
- SDU kræver, at forskere opbevarer de forskningsdata, der er nødvendige for at validere de resultater, der præsenteres i videnskabelige publikationer, i sikre data repositorier med information om, hvordan adgang kan opnås. Forskningsdata bør forsynes med vedvarende identifikatorer og sammenkædes med publikationer, hvor det er muligt.
- Forskning Data Management er anerkendt som en vital komponent i god videnskabelig praksis, der muliggør tillid til forskning.
- Alle forskere opfordres til at oprette et Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) samt til at gøre krav på og opdatere deres passende forsker-id'er og forbinde dem med Pure for at øge synligheden og anerkendelsen af deres arbejde.
- Borgernes engagement i forskning (Citizen Science) mht. et mere inkluderende og deltagende samfund, der er bedre rustet til at håndtere de kommende års dybtgående transformationer, anbefales, når det er muligt eller giver mening for projektet.
- For at vurdere kvaliteten af forskningen og evaluere forskernes præstationer vil SDU udover tidsskriftsbaserede målinger også bruge Open Science og yderligere relevante forskningsaktiviteter som anført i (CoARA) Agreement on Reforming Research Assessment.
Den fulde SDU Open Science Policy er tilgængelig her.
Open Science Policy på dit institut?
Siden implementeringen af SDU Open Science Policy har hvert institut på SDU lavet deres egne retningslinjer for, hvordan man følger den overordnede SDU-politik. Disse omtales som "Open Science guidelines" ELLER som en del af "retningslinjer for forskning" ELLER som "implementering af Open Science-politikken".
Tag en snak med din institutleder for at finde ud af, hvad de specifikke retningslinjer for Open Science er for dit institut.
Ofte stillede spørgsmål
Open access (OA) refers to free, unrestricted online access to research outputs such as journal articles and books. OA content is open to all, with no access fees.
There are many types of OA, but the two main routes to making research outputs openly accessible are “Gold Open Access” and “Green Open Access”.
Gold OA involves publishing articles or books via the OA route on a publisher’s platform.
Green OA involves archiving a version of the manuscript in an OA repository, like SDU Pure.
Content published via the Gold OA route is accessible immediately on publication at the publisher’s website, but may come with a hefty fee. Manuscripts published via the Green OA route may, in many cases, be made accessible only once a self-archiving embargo period has elapsed. The terms for onward sharing and re-use of OA content will depend on the licence under which it has been made available. (Adapted from SpringerNature)
In cases where closed access cannot be avoided, please consider writing an OA popular science article or a blog post or engage in OA communication activities regarding your work.
To learn more, visit the FAQ section of our page on data best practices here or visit the Open Access webpage.
FAIR research data is data that has been prepared in accordance with the FAIR guiding principles published in 2016. These principles contain data management best practices that aim at making data FAIR: findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable.
To learn more, visit the FAQ section of our page on data best practices, here.
A data management plan (DMP) is a written document that describes the data you expect to acquire or generate during the course of a research project, how you will manage, describe, analyze, and store those data, and what mechanisms you will use at the end of your project to share and preserve your data.
You may have already considered some or all of these issues with regard to your research project, but writing them down helps you formalize the process, identify weaknesses in your plan, and provide you with a record of what you intend(ed) to do.
Data management is best addressed in the early stages of a research project, but it is never too late to develop a data management plan.
To learn more about the SDUB recommendations for preparing a DMP, visit our general research data management page, here.
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ORCID provides a persistent digital identifier (an ORCID iD) that you own and control, and that distinguishes you from every other researcher.
You can connect your iD with your professional information — affiliations, grants, publications, peer review, and more – and have your newest publications automatically synced via SDU Pure.
You can use your iD to share your information with other systems, ensuring you get recognition for all your contributions, saving you time and hassle, and reducing the risk of errors.
The Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA) is a collective of organisations committed to reforming the methods and processes by which research, researchers, and research organisations are evaluated. Current research assessment methods rely heavily on publication-based metrics such as citation counts, and often fail to recognise the wide array of contributions made by researchers.
Over 700 research organisations, funders, assessment authorities, professional societies, and their associations have agreed on a common direction and guiding principles to implement reform in the assessment of research, researchers, and research organisations, outlined in the Agreement on Reforming Research Assessment published in July 2022 which provides an outline for reform and implementation.
The Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) recognizes the need to improve the ways in which the outputs of scholarly research are evaluated.
The declaration was developed in 2012 during the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology in San Francisco. It has become a worldwide initiative covering all scholarly disciplines and all key stakeholders including funders, publishers, professional societies, institutions, and researchers.
The objectives of DORA are to:
Raise awareness
To call attention to new tools and processes in research assessment and the responsible use of metrics that align with core academic values and promote consistency and transparency in decision-making
Facilitate implementation
To aid development of new policies and practices for hiring, promotion, and funding decisions
Catalyze change
To spread research assessment reform broadly by working across scholarly disciplines and globally
Improve equity
To call for broader representation of researchers in the design of research assessment practices that directly address the structural inequalities in academia
The so-called "Sorbonne Declaration" on research data rights affirms the commitment of the signatory universities to opening up research data and demanding a clear legal framework to regulate this sharing and to provide the means to put it in place.
The Declaration was published on January 28 2020 at the LERU website, and it is an important document to promote Open Data.