Swedish EU Presidency highlights open science
Daniel Spichtinger
helping stakeholders to navigate EU research and digitalisation policy, create EU projects and harness the power of open science
The Presidency of the Council of the European Union rotates among the Member States every six months. The country that holds the Presidency leads the work of the Council and represents all 27 Member States in negotiations with other EU institutions.
Sweden will hold the Presidency of the Council of the EU in the first half of 2023.? The Presidency programme sets out the Swedish priorities and main direction and in the competitiveness chapter, the research and innovation priorities are outlined.
In line with Nordic preferences for openness and transparency, open science plays an important part in Sweden’s plans. The programme states that the presidency will
“work to support measures that promote open exchange of knowledge and data within the European Research Area, increase knowledge valorisation in our societies, accelerate the transition to open science and allow increased access to research infrastructures…The transition to open science entails comprehensive change, making as many stages and tools as possible in research processes freely available online. To facilitate and drive the transition to open science, there are challenges and needs that must be addressed at both national and international level. These concern costs, skills and merits, for example. Questions are also raised concerning security and protection of research data, which actors have intellectual property rights over various publications and research findings, and how actors’ knowledge and strategic use of those rights can be promoted. The Presidency will work to promote open science.”
You can find the full text of the Presidency programme on https://swedish-presidency.consilium.europa.eu/en/programme/programme-of-the-presidency/
Fulbright Scholar, Associate Professor of Economics at ADA University
2 年HI Daniel, Also it seems to me (I maybe wrong) it sounds as Swedish universities do not endorse MDPI journals, which predominantly publish open access articles. Even though many of them are indexed in Web of Science, SSCI, SCI and SCIE, there are a lot of negative PR letters, pieces, blogs about MDPI journals, maybe because they are affiliated with Chinese organizations. Or maybe, it threatens market share of western publishers in the academic publishing sector. It is still big question mark for me. If you have any detailed information or document, please feel free to share me via email. Many thanks in advance.
Senior Research Fellow @ Kate Hamburger Kolleg | Former European Commission Official , Chairman MLE Science for Policy: 16 EU Member Sates
2 年Overdue since long, but better late than never. Some drastic correction on OA is needed, as universities finance OA for their employees, with selected publishers, reinforcing monopolies in the publishing industry rather than moving away from them and foster free accessible online platforms, free accesdible to all and not just their employees...the recent trend towards gold OA is disastrous and has nothing to do with open sience, on the contrary, it is anti-open science