Extracts below. Read online: https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2022/03/07/accelerating-open-researc...
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On the 10th February 2022, the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) Publisher-Funder Task Force convened a closed forum of funders, publishers, librarians and academics to discuss how collaborating among stakeholder groups may accelerate a transition to open research. The meeting was conducted under the Chatham House Rule, enabling 22 international participants to freely express opinions and ideas without fear of comments being attributed to those present...
The first task was to define what we mean when we use the term “open research.”
For the purpose of the day’s discussion, the definition of open research was taken and adapted from the UNESCO recommendations adopted by the General Conference of UNESCO in November 2021:
'open [research] is an inclusive construct that combines various movements and practices aiming to make multilingual [research] knowledge openly available, accessible and reusable for everyone...'
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HIFA looks forward to read the Task Force's findings and proposals for ways forward.
Neil Pakenham-Walsh, HIFA Coordinator, neil@hifa.org www.hifa.org
