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Open Science encompasses a variety of practices and procedures within the scientific process. In these approaches, methods, data, scientific publications, review processes, teaching materials, source code, and many other resources are made available for general accessibility. This openness aims to overcome the barriers of traditional scientific information sharing and promote wider dissemination and usability of knowledge. Open Science encompasses several areas, such as:

  • Open and comprehensible presentation of research methods ("Open Methodology").
  • Involving the public in the scientific process ("Citizen Science")
  • Free provision of research data ("Open Data")
  • Open access to scientific publications
  • Freely available teaching and learning materials ("Open Educational Resources")
  • Openly accessible program code for software developments ("Open Source")
  • Open evaluation of research achievements by peers, in which the participants are known ("Open Peer Review")
  • Disclosure of evaluation criteria and their calculation modalities ("Open Metrics")
  • Combination of open evaluation and open metrics ("Open Evaluation")
  • Freely accessible resources from search engines to repositories ("Open Infrastructure")

The goal of making these processes open is to promote transparency, reproducibility, reusability of research results, and an open culture of communication in science. The open science movement has made different progress internationally and is guided by the respective country-specific guidelines, cf. e.g., the Austrian Open Science Guideline. UNESCO has adopted a general recommendation for Open Science in 2021.

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The University of Graz fully supports Open Science (cf. the Arqus Openness Position Paper, Kaier et al., 2022). This is particularly evident with regard to Open Access publications (cf. Open Science Policy), Open Educational Resources and the University as a signatory of the Berlin Declaration on Open Access as well as a supporter/member of Coara, EOSC as well as EOSC Austria and through the use and further development of open source software for central software offerings. On behalf of the University, the University Library supported / supports the following initiatives as part of memberships or innovative Open Access funding models:

  • arXiv - 2021-2023
  • Directory of Open Access Books - 2020-2022
  • Directory of Open Access Journals - since 2016
  • Language Science Press - since 2018
  • Open Book Publishers - since 2020
  • Open Commons of Phenomenology - since 2018
  • Open Library of Humanities - 2019-2021
  • Public Knowledge Project - 2021-2023
  • Routledge Gender Studies - 2019-2021
  • SciPost - 2019-2023
  • Sherpa/Romeo - 2021
  • Transcript Open Library Political Science - 2019-2020
  • wbv Open Library Educational Science - 2020
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