Temos um convite especial para você: venha participar do evento de lançamento oficial da Comunidade de Ciência Aberta Pelotas / Open Science Community Pelotas (OSC Pelotas)!
📅 Data: 07 de agosto de 2025 🕡 Horário: 18h30 – 20h00 📍 Local: Auditório do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Odontologia da Universidade Federal de Pelotas 📍 Endereço: R. Gonçalves Chaves, 457 – Centro, Pelotas
A OSC Pelotas é uma iniciativa aberta e colaborativa que nasce com o objetivo de fortalecer a cultura da ciência aberta em nossa comunidade acadêmica. Queremos reunir estudantes, pesquisadores, docentes, técnicos e profissionais de diferentes áreas em torno de práticas científicas mais transparentes, acessíveis e reprodutíveis.
O evento contará com:
Apresentação da proposta da comunidade
Introdução aos princípios da ciência aberta
Espaço para troca de ideias e discussão
💡 Quer fazer parte da comunidade? Cadastre-se como membro: osc-international.com/osc-pelotas-register
Vamos juntos construir uma ciência mais aberta, colaborativa e inclusiva!
📢 Evento gratuito e aberto a toda a comunidade científica 📢 Não é necessária inscrição prévia. A entrada será por ordem de chegada (sujeita à lotação do espaço).
A INOSC (International Network of Open Science & Scholarship Communities) irá abrir em breve o processo de eleição para novos membros do seu conselho. Esta é uma excelente oportunidade para membros engajados da comunidade contribuírem ativamente para o fortalecimento e desenvolvimento da rede internacional de comunidades de ciência aberta. O processo eleitoral terá início no segundo semestre de 2025. Em breve, mais detalhes sobre o processo de candidatura e votação serão compartilhados. Convidamos todos os membros da OSCP a ficarem atentos às atualizações e a considerarem essa oportunidade de contribuir com INOSC. Juntos, seguimos construindo uma comunidade internacional de ciência aberta mais forte, colaborativa e inclusiva.
No dia 24 de junho, realizou-se no Iscte o primeiro encontro presencial da Open Science Community Lisboa. O evento contou com a presença de representantes de 10 instituições de investigação científica de Lisboa, além da participação especial de AnitaEerland, da INOSC, e das colegas da Open Science Community Coimbra.
Os participantes foram convidados a refletir sobre os principais desafios identificados nos oito pilares da ciência aberta e a discutir como a Open Science Community Lisboa pode contribuir para sua superação.
Este primeiro encontro marcou um passo importante para fortalecer a colaboração entre instituições e abriu caminho para futuras colaborações e iniciativas.
Junta-te a nós!
The first face-to-face meeting of the Open Science Community Lisbon was held at Iscte on 24 June. The event was attended by representatives from 10 research performing organisations from Lisbon, as well as the special participation of Anita Eerland, from INOSC, and our colleagues from the Open Science Community Coimbra.
Participants were invited to reflect on the main challenges identified in the eight pillars of open science and to discuss how the Open Science Community Lisbon can contribute to overcoming them.
This first meeting marked an important step towards strengthening collaboration between institutions and paved the way for future collaborations and initiatives.
In today’s digital age, a significant amount of research data remains inaccessible to the public. This creates a major hurdle, as data is the engine of discovery and innovation. To tackle this challenge, Open Science has emerged as a vital research reform movement. Its core principle is simple: knowledge and understanding generated by researchers should be treated as public goods, freely available for the benefit of all society. This marks a significant departure from traditional academic practices that often restrict access to research and promote inequitable systems.
It’s a common misconception that “Open Science” applies only to the natural sciences. In reality, it embraces all academic disciplines. The movement gained traction in Europe, and in many European languages the word for “science” more closely translates to “scholarship.” This nuance is why, particularly in North America, “Open Science” and “Open Scholarship” can be used interchangeably.
The Open Science Community of Victoria (OSCV) is a new, collaborative initiative from the University of Victoria and Royal Roads University. This cross-institutional, multidisciplinary community is dedicated to promoting open research practices with the goal of driving cultural and institutional change. OSCV is also proud to join the International Network of Open Science & Scholarship Communities, a collaborative network connecting and supporting over 50 local communities across 27 countries worldwide.
OSCV aims to foster cultural change by raising awareness about the importance and advantages of open science, empowering individuals to collaborate on solutions, and strengthening existing open approaches. OSCV welcomes everyone, regardless of their expertise level – from faculty and students at UVic and RRU to postdocs, staff, and broader community members. The community organizes a variety of events, including lectures, workshops, panels, and “show-and-tell” sessions that address current topics in open science.
We invite you to join OSCV to contribute to a more open and collaborative research environment. To become a member and receive our mailing list updates, please complete the Join the Open Scholarship Community Victoria form. We look forward to connecting with you and building a more open and equitable future!
24 de junho, 17h-19h, Iscte – Edifício 4, Piso 3, B332 – Clube
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É com grande entusiasmo que convidamos todos os colegas e entusiastas da Ciência Aberta para o evento da Open Science Community Lisboa!
O Open Science Sunset será uma oportunidade única de celebrar a reabertura desta comunidade, com a participação de Anita Eerland, da INOSC – uma rede internacional de comunidades locais de Ciência Aberta – e dos nossos colegas da Open Science Community Coimbra.
Vem fazer parte deste momento inspirador e ajudar a construir uma comunidade mais colaborativa e transparente na ciência.
June 24th, 17h-19h, Iscte – Edifício 4, Piso 3, B332 – Clube
It is with great enthusiasm that we invite all Open Science members and enthusiasts to the launch event of the Open Science Community Lisboa!
The Open Science Sunset will be a unique opportunity to celebrate the opening of this new community, with the special presence of Anita Eerland, from INOSC – an international network of local Open Science communities – and our colleagues from the Open Science Community Coimbra.
Come and be part of this inspiring moment and help build a more collaborative and transparent community in science.
On 24 October 2025, the second Leo Waaijers Open Science Award will be presented at the Open Science Festival in Groningen. This award recognises an individual or group who, in recent years, has launched a bold, innovative and/or impactful initiative in the field of Open Science.
The Leo Waaijers Open Science Award is an initiative of UKB, the collaboration of the 13 Dutch university libraries and the National Library of the Netherlands. The aim of the award is to highlight inspiring Open Science initiatives and, in doing so, to encourage and motivate others. Leo Waaijers (1938–2023) was a tireless advocate for Open Access and a rebalancing of power between public and private actors in the realm of scientific knowledge. For 35 years, he was a highly active voice in the world of scholarly information, continuously challenging the status quo with new ideas, proposals and action plans. With this award, UKB hopes to inspire others to follow in his footsteps.
Nominate yourself or someone else
Submit your nomination by completing the online form by 1 September 2025. You may nominate yourself or someone else. In mid-September, the jury will announce a shortlist of nominations based on the criteria below. The winner will be announced on 24 October during the Open Science Festival in Groningen. This year’s jury consists of Anna van ’t Veer (Leiden University), Hubert Krekels (Wageningen University & Research) and Maurits van der Graaf (Pleiade Management & Consultancy).
The criteria for the award are:
The Open Science initiative must be (at least partly) rooted in the Netherlands (international initiatives are welcome);
The initiative must be no older than five years;
The jury will evaluate the initiative based on one or more of the following qualities: boldness, inspiration, innovation, impact, and the ability to mobilise others.
The prize consists of a commemorative token. The winner will receive broad recognition and visibility across the Open Science community. For any questions, please contact jury member Maurits van der Graaf.
Let us know as well!
Are you nominating yourself or someone else for the Leo Waaijers Open Science Award? If so, we at the Radboud Open Science Programme would love to hear from you too! As the Open Science working group, we aim to highlight and celebrate outstanding initiatives within our university. Let’s work together to raise the profile of Open Science at Radboud University.
Contact information
Feel free to get in touch with dirk.vangorp@ru.nl — not only to let us know about your nomination, but also if you’d like some advice or support in preparing your submission.
On the 21st of March, 2025 the Launch Event of the Open Science Community Torino (OSCT) took place in a crowded Blue Room at the Rettorato of the University of Torino (UniTo). More than 50 participants attended the event, including researchers, PhD students and professors.
The OSCT was born from an idea of a group of young researchers from the University of Torino, Luca Visentin, Ilaria Stura, Evdokia Tema and Elena Giglia. They participated in the CUAP course for Data Stewardship organized by UniTo, and share a common vision for open, ethical, and transparent research. The OSCT is the first Italian Open Science community, and is a member of the International Network of Open Science & Scholarship Communities (INOSC).
The OSCT is an open community that aims to bring together researchers, students, technical staff and citizen scientists from in and around Torino, all united in the common goal of promoting Open Science in their Institutions.
Elena Giglia, opened the event by giving an introduction to the philosophy of Open Science, showcasing its benefits and the main challenges it faces. Next, Luca Visentin, one of the coordinators of the OSCT, presented the OSCT, explaining how this initiative was born, its objectives, and how to get involved, also describing the tools created to support communication among members.
The community has four main objectives:
Organize Open Science initiatives in Turin, in collaboration with universities and other institutions;
Support researchers in the practice of Open Science through the exchange of best practices, strategies and resources;
Connect researchers interested in Open Science with a peer-to-peer network;
Train on methods and strategies to integrate Open Science into daily research practice.
It was emphasized that OSCT is not a service, but a community of people, united by a shared desire to improve skills and knowledge, exchange ideas and experiences, and actively contribute to building a more open scientific culture.
Next, Mauro Paschetta for the Politecnico di Torino (PoliTo), Fabrizio Fossati for the Università del Piemonte Orientale (UPO), Emanuela Secinaro and Federico Ferrarese Lupi for the Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica (INRiM) presented the Open Science efforts in their respective Institutions. They also discussed the challenges they face in their respective fields.
The audience actively participated in the event through a Mentimeter questionnaire, and this was one of the most interesting and fun parts of the event. 50 participants answered the proposed questions. Of these 50, the vast majority were from UniTo (41), but also INRiM (3), PoliTo (2), UPO (1) and Istituto di Ricerca per la Crescita Clinica (IRCC) (1).
Surprisingly, more than half of participants (26, 52%) were from the biomedical area, 8 had a chemistry or pharmaceutical background, 3 from Historical studies, 2 from Law studies. The remaining participants were from many fields: agronomics, engineering, computer science and other hard sciences. There were no participants from the departments of Human Studies, Philosophy or Economy.
Most participants were doctoral students or researchers (23 in total), but several full professors (7), assistant professors (5) and administrative (9) and research technicians (3) were in the audience, too.
As expected, participants felt prepared to publish their research in open access (OA, median of 4 out of 5 points) and deposit their articles in OA repositories (3/5). The audience was also informed about FAIR principles (3/5) and Open Peer Review (2.5/5), but pre registration of studies (1/5), preprints and Citizen Science (2/5) were less known topics. There is a significant drop between reported knowledge of a topic and its application in practice (p<0.01) for all areas with the exception of OA repository usage (p>0.05), possibly because these practices are nowadays widely adopted by the scientific community and rewarded by institutions.
The most known Open Science platform is Zenodo (24, 54.5%), followed by Sherpa Romeo (10, 22.7%). UniTo’s resources are basically unknown (www.oa.unito.it: 3, its intranet pages: 2), as well as the European initiatives and portals (COARA: 3, EOSC: 1).
We used freeform comments to ask participants about their difficulties in implementing Open Science. Most felt that the largest difficulty was the lack of knowledge (29), followed by a lack of dedicated support staff (16), lack of formal evaluation rewards (8) and of infrastructures (5). Some report the difficulty of introducing OS to their colleagues or external partners (6), having experienced resistance to OS in the past.
It is interesting to notice how these figures are reversed when participants are asked what their institutions are missing when supporting them in Open Science. The first answer is not education or training, but specific support staff (16), recognition of OS work (12), new infrastructure (10) and only then OS training (9). These responses suggest that for those interested in Open Science, the priority is not necessarily acquiring more knowledge, but rather having collaborators, support staff, and adequate structures to help them implement open practices in their day-to-day research.
This trend is also reflected in participants’ expectations for the OSCT: the majority (26) expressed the wish that it becomes a space for networking, mutual support, and collaboration among Open Science advocates. Secondly, they would like to organise or promote OS courses (17) at every level (masters, PhDs, for technicians and researchers proper), or thematic workshops on case studies (14).
Finally, more than half of the participants indicated e-mails as their preferred communication method, followed by Whatsapp (14), Discord (13) or Telegram (9). The OSCT will therefore start a mailing list, and the Discord Channel will remain open (https://discord.gg/JgTbFJGx).
The event ended with an Open Science Cafe’, an informal event where participants were encouraged to exchange ideas and comments on OSCT and have an open discussion with the organizers about key Open Science topics. The topic of Data Stewardship and the emerging figure of Data Steward was particularly popular among the audience.
In conclusion, the OSCT was warmly welcomed. Our hope is that this community will become a reference point for the Open Science efforts in and around Turin, where everyone can find space to offer and receive support, exchange advice, and build new collaborations, all in the true spirit of Open.
A sincere thank you to everyone who joined us in the launch event and that made this first step possible.
Em março de 2025, oficializamos nossa participação na Rede Brasileira de Reprodutibilidade (RBR)(https://www.reprodutibilidade.org/), uma iniciativa multidisciplinar dedicada à promoção de práticas de pesquisa transparentes e confiáveis no Brasil.
A RBR reúne grupos, instituições e pesquisadores de diversas áreas do conhecimento, com o objetivo de avaliar e aprimorar práticas científicas, além de fomentar o debate sobre reprodutibilidade na pesquisa. Como parte desse compromisso, a Comunidade de Ciência Aberta Pelotas se junta à rede para fortalecer ações voltadas à transparência, integridade e confiabilidade na produção científica.
Acreditamos que a colaboração com a RBR contribuirá significativamente para a disseminação de boas práticas em nossa comunidade acadêmica e para o avanço da ciência aberta, colaborativa, acessível e reprodutível no Brasil.
A Comunidade de Ciência Aberta de Pelotas é um grupo colaborativo dedicado a engajar e apoiar a adoção dos princípios e práticas de Ciência Aberta na pesquisa. Nosso objetivo é promover ciência aberta, facilitando a comunicação 📢 e a colaboração 🤝 entre instituições, disciplinas e contextos comprometidos em tornar o conhecimento científico acessível 🌍 e utilizável 📖.
📚 Como fazemos isso?
Através de workshops, seminários e projetos colaborativos 🎓💡, buscamos inspirar e capacitar indivíduos – pesquisadores, estudantes e profissionais de qualquer área – para que contribuam e se beneficiem da Ciência Aberta. Nossa comunidade está aberta a qualquer pessoa interessada em promover a Ciência Aberta, independentemente de sua formação ou nível de experiência.
🔎 Por que isso é importante?
Ao promover essas conexões, queremos sensibilizar 💡, simplificar a implementação da Ciência Aberta 🔄 e apoiar a transferência de conhecimento 🌍. Nossa missão é derrubar barreiras tradicionais 🚧 na pesquisa científica, promovendo transparência 👀, reprodutibilidade 🔄 e aprendizado compartilhado 📖.
✅ Isso significa:
📂 Acesso aberto a dados, métodos e descobertas.
🔓 Recursos científicos disponíveis para todos que os procuram.
🌎 Democratização da pesquisa com ferramentas de acesso aberto.
🤝 Contribuições de uma rede global de colaboradores.
🎯 Além da academia!
Também priorizamos educação e divulgação, levando as práticas de Ciência Aberta para além do ambiente acadêmico 📢. Nosso objetivo é envolver toda a sociedade, garantindo que a pesquisa seja conduzida com integridade ✅ e seus benefícios sejam amplamente compartilhados 🔗.
🚀 Junte-se a nós e faça parte dessa transformação! 🌍💡
A Ciência Aberta é um movimento que busca tornar a pesquisa mais transparente, colaborativa, reprodutível e acessível. Mas o que isso significa na prática? Sabe quando você quer ler um artigo científico e aparece um paywall, te pedindo dinheiro para acessar? Ou quando um pesquisador fala que descobriu algo incrível, mas não compartilha os dados e ninguém consegue confirmar? Isso acontece porque boa parte da ciência ainda é feita de um jeito fechado. A Ciência Aberta vem para promover um avanço nisso, defendendo que o conhecimento deve ser acessível para todo mundo, sem barreiras. Isso significa:
✅ Acesso Aberto: Publicações científicas disponíveis para todos, sem barreiras pagas.
📂 Dados Abertos: Compartilhamento de dados de pesquisa para reuso e validação.
🤝 Colaboração e Inclusão: Fortalecimento do trabalho em rede e acesso ao conhecimento por pesquisadores de todo mundo.
🔄 Reprodutibilidade: Métodos e análises disponíveis para que outros possam replicar e validar estudos.
🔹 Transparência: Qualquer pessoa pode entender como a pesquisa foi feita e até repetir o experimento para confirmar os resultados. A Ciência Aberta não é apenas uma tendência – é o caminho para uma pesquisa mais ética, eficiente e inovadora! Ciência boa é ciência compartilhada! 💡✨
