Open Science is more than open access to publications. It is about making all processes of the academic life cycle open for the entire world to enjoy the research paid for by the taxpayers. Open Science is also about open data, open peer review, open access, open education, citizen science and much more.
It is a movement that encourages researchers to contribute to the change of the way in which research traditionally is conducted and made public. At the same time, it challenges the scientific publishers’ business model. Investigations have proven that the researchers that mainly publish their research as open publications are quoted more frequently than those who do not.
SDU continuously aims at promoting the open science agenda and has therefore developed local Open Science policies that match the subject specific research’s nature and culture.
The purpose of the open science policy is to:
- increase scientific impact through open access to publications and data
- guide researchers to efficient use of existing resources and tools
- ensure compliance with funding requirements, legal obligations, and ethical protocols
- make primary materials available for future research where possible
- enable Open Science through FAIR data principles
- promote visibility of the research conducted at the University of Southern Denmark
With this new policy, all researchers (including PhD students) at the Humanities are required to:
- Be registered with ORCID via Pure, and create a public ORCID profile
- Adhere to the FAIR principles and thereby aim to make data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Re-usable (in accordance with data perceptions at the Humanities)
- Have a data management plan for all projects. Principal investigators are responsible for the plan (supervisors for PhD students)
The Open Science policy includes guidelines for these three core requirements.
→ Download the Open Science policy here |
For more information on data management in the Humanities, see the appendix (pdf).