Den 9. marts 2018 vedtog direktionen en Open Science-politik for hele SDU. Politikken indeholder tre elementer: datamanagement-planer, åbne forskningsdata og Open Access til videnskabelige publikationer. Helt overordnet er tanken, at forskerne udarbejder en datamanagement-plan for deres projekter for bedre at kunne indsamle, strukturere, gemme, beskrive og evt. dele data. Netop deling af data er også et hovedelement i politikken, men er dog ikke et ufravigeligt krav. Deling af forskningsdata er helt centralt for Open Science, og dermed Open Science-politikken, og har til formål at gavne andre forskere og resten af samfundet. Herudover er det med til at gøre forskningen mere transparent, hvilket er i tråd med den national kodeks for forskningsintegritet.
De enkelte institutter har implementeret Open Science-politikken ved at udarbejde retningslinjer for deres forskere.
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On the 9th of March 2018 SDU adopted an Open Science Policy for the university. The policy includes three main elements:
- Data management planning,
- FAIR research data, and
- Open access to research papers.
It is a requirement that researchers produce a data management plan (DMP) for every project in order to predict and overcome any issues that may arise in the project, and to save time if any requests for data are received, or if the project collects personal data that needs special attention. The DMP will prepare and enable the project to collect, save, describe, share and ultimately publish research data.
Publishing data is a core element of the policy, but it is not a requirement, as some projects cannot under any circumstances publish the data. If possible, data should be published in order to become available for other researchers’ work - whether in research or teaching. FAIR research data can benefit society through better access to re-usable data and signals trustworthiness. Furthermore, preferring Open Science leads to more transparent research which is in line with the national Code of Conduct for Research Integrity.
The full SDU Open Science Policy is available here.
Open Science Policy at your department?
Since the implementation of the SDU Open Science Policy every department at SDU has made their own guidelines on how to follow the overall SDU Policy. These are commonly referred to as “Open Science guidelines” OR as a part of the “instructions for research” OR as “implementation of the Open Science policy”.
Talk with your department head to find out what the specific Open Science guidelines are for your research department.