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Sánchez Martín, C., Calonge Cases, D., & Milenković, M. (2023). An overview on open science in the European rail sector. Transport, 38(1), 52–66. https://doi.org/10.3846/transport.2023.18291

Anja Fleten Nielsen, Jakob Michelmann, Attila Akac, Kristel Palts, Anne Zilles, Afroditi Anagnostopoulou & Ove Langeland

This report presents the result of a study that explores the interactions and the balance between Open Science and Intellectual Property Rights (IPR). The report presents the state of the art and reflections to scope the statement 'as open as possible, as closed as necessary' in the context of an evolving and open Research and Innovation ecosystem. Furthermore, the report identifies concrete recommendations for policy makers and for IPR practitioners on the promotion of Open Science and its balance with IPR for better knowledge dissemination to the benefit of all.

Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on the Stability and Safety of Ships and Ocean Vehicles, 7-11 June 2021, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Scientific article published in International Journal of Research in Humanities and Social Studies; Volume 8, Issue 5, 2021, PP 32-40 | ISSN 2694-6296 DOI: https://doi.org/10.22259/2694-6296.0805004

Scientific article published in SCIREA Journal of Aviation and Aerospace, May 21, 2021, Volume 2, Issue 1, February 2021 Originally published http://www.scirea.org/journal/PaperInformation?JournalID=59000&PaperID=5235

Scientific article published in SCIREA Journal of Traffic and Transportation, March 9, 2021, Volume 4, Issue 1, February 2021 Originally published http://www.scirea.org/journal/PaperInformation?PaperID=4915

This final report of the EU Open Science Policy Platform (OSPP) provides a brief overview of its four-year mandate from 2016 to 2020, followed by an update on progress by each stakeholder group over the past two years since the publication of the OSPP’s recommendations across the European Commission’s eight ambitions on Open Science, (OSPP-Recommendations). This summary of Practical Commitments for Implementation with specific examples of progress by each stakeholder community across Europe is followed by a perspective from each group on the major outstanding blockers to progress and possible next steps. The group of 25 key stakeholder representatives have then come together to propose a vision for moving beyond Open Science to create a shared research knowledge system by 2030.

Proceedings of 8th Transport Research Arena TRA 2020, April 27-30, 2020, Helsinki, Finland

The following list of references compiles the key documents produced by Member States, experts and the European commission. The references collect important decisions and the direction for the development of EOSC. Source: https://ec.europa.eu/research/openscience/index.cfm

The EOSC Strategic Implementation Plan presents the activities that will contribute to the implementation of the EOSC for the period 2019-2020. While the document will be made public after final approval, it is primarily intended for use by stakeholders engaged into building EOSC. Other documents will be developed and made public for use by research communities which will be the primary users of EOSC capabilities. This document draws from the EOSC Implementation Roadmap adopted by the Commission on 14 March 2018 and presents a comprehensive overview of the implementation of the EOSC, with action lines and timelines for the period 2019-2020. The list of activities includes the most recently approved Horizon 2020 projects. Source: https://ec.europa.eu/info/publications/european-open-science-cloud-eosc-strategic-implementation-plan_en

This report, the second in the Global Research series from the Institute for Scientific Information, examines recent patterns of publications funded by Plan S supporters, exploring potential impacts on funders, subjects, countries, publishers, and journals. Based on journal data taken from Web of Science Core Collection, the report looks to provide an unbiased and data-driven background analysis to inform the debate around a potentially transformative change in research policy. ‘The Plan S Footprint’ raises several questions for consideration by funders, publishers and institutions when exploring possible ways to implement Plan S. Source: https://clarivate.com/g/plan-s-footprint/

A report of the Science|Business Network’s Cloud Consultation Group. This report is the fourth in a series that the group is working on, to gather private and public sector expertise on topics of importance to the development of the European Open Science Cloud. The other reports are available on www.sciencebusiness.net:

Scientific article published in the proceedings of the 6th Virtual Multidisciplinary Conference (QUESTI 2018), December, 10. - 15. 2018, www.quaesti.com Originally published https://www.quaesti.com/archive/?vid=1&aid=2&kid=160601-388 ISBN: 978-80-554-1537-6 ISSN: 2453-7144 CDROM ISSN: 1339-5572 DOI: 10.18638/quaesti.2018.6.1.388

In November 2018, the European Commission launched the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) in Vienna. The EOSC envisions establishing a European data infrastructure, integrating high-capacity cloud solutions, eventually widening the scope of these services to include the public sector and the industry. Understanding the EOSC structure is a first step in recognizing the opportunities offered by the newly launched EOSC. This article offers some reflections for a better understanding of the realization of the EOSC at the present stage, including currently ongoing developments. Burgelman and Schouppe published under their own names and their text does not necessarily represent the view of the EC. Architectures of Knowledge: The European Open Science Cloud by Paolo Budroni, Jean-Claude Burgelman, Michel Schouppe. ABI Technik 2019; 39(2): 130–141

A new way of conceiving scientific research, Open Science, was born with the computer revolution. In the wake of Open Access (free public access to the results of publicly funded research), it accompanies the great ideal of transparency that is now invading all spheres of life in society. This book describes its origins, perspectives and objectives. It also reveals the obstacles and barriers due to private profit and academic conservatism. Bernard Rentier is a Belgian virologist, associate member of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium, in the «Technology and Society» class. He is First Vice-President of the Belgian Federal Council of Science Policy. After an international career as a researcher, he became Vice-rector (1997-2005) and then Rector of the University of Liège (2005-2014). He has established an institutional repository for scientific publications with a mandate that has become a famed Open Access model and he is currently working to promote Open Science in all its implications for research and researchers. ISBN: 978-2-8031-0667-7 https://academie-editions.be/accueil/369-open-science-the-challenge-of-transparency.html

Final report and action plan from the European Commission expert group on FAIR data. To take advantage of the digital revolution, to accelerate research, to engage the power of machine analysis at scale while ensuring transparency, reproducibility and societal utility, data and other digital objects created by and used for research need to be FAIR. Advancing the global Open Science movement and the development of the European Open Science Cloud is the unambiguous objective for this report. This document is both a report and an action plan for turning FAIR into reality. It offers a survey and analysis of what is needed to implement FAIR and it provides a set of concrete recommendations and actions for stakeholders in Europe and beyond. It is our intention that it should provide a framework that will greatly assist the creation of the European Open Science Cloud, and will be applicable to other comparable initiatives globally. Source: https://publications.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/7769a148-f1f6-11e8-9982-01aa75ed71a1/language-en/format-PDF/source-80611283

This report focuses on the requirements for data sharing within the transport research community. In particular, the report examines the potential of a Transport Research Cloud (TRC) as a subset of the European Union’s European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) initiative. Six domain experts collected data based on their personal experiences, contacts, prior research and a survey sent out to other researchers in the transport domain to enable a preliminary analysis concerning the needs, barriers and potential benefits for the domain should a TRC be realized. From this work ten recommendations, grouped into five broad topic areas, have been developed that the Experts believe must be addressed if a sustainable TRC is to be realized. Corporate author(s): Directorate-General for Research and Innovation (European Commission) Personal author(s): Kovacikova, Tatiana; Böhm, Martin; Jones, Sarah; Nowicka, Katarzyna; Franklin, J. Rod; Yannis, George

Final report and recommendations of the Commission 2nd High Level Expert Group on the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), 2018. To help drive forward and implement the EOSC, the main thread of the report is to understand how the EOSC can effectively interlink people, data, services and training, publications, projects and organisations. The ideas presented here bring together, reflect on and further expand on various policy papers and recommendations contributing to the establishment of the EOSC that have been published by ongoing Horizon 2020 projects and national initiatives, as well as by the Commission FAIR Data expert group and by the Open Science Policy Platform, with whom the group have collaborated actively. The report shows how Europe, with its strong scientific base and investments made in infrastructures has the skills, knowledge and capacity to turn EOSC into a reality in less than a year from now Source: https://publications.europa.eu/en/web/eu-law-and-publications/publication-detail/-/publication/5253a1af-ee10-11e8-b690-01aa75ed71a1

Expert Group on Transport Research Cloud Addressing research domain needs in the thematic pillars of European Open Science Cloud

This report builds on the exchange of experiences and mutual learning of 13 countries: Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, France, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Portugal, Slovenia, Sweden and Switzerland. It provides an overview of various challenges of Open Science implementation across Europe as discussed throughout several meetings in 2017. The report is focused on three topics: 1) The potential of altmetrics – alternative (i.e. non-traditional) metrics that go beyond citations of articles – to foster Open Science; 2) Incentives and rewards for researchers to engage in Open Science activities; 3) Guidelines for developing and implementing national policies for Open Science. It identifies good practices, lists priorities and outlines potential courses of action for the best possible transition to Open Science European Commission, Directorate-General for Research and Innovation, Directorate A — Policy Development and Coordination, Unit A4— Analysis and Monitoring of National Research and Innovation Policies

The adoption of Open Science principles is necessary in order to ensure the best use and greatest impact of the investments put into research and innovation in Europe. This “IPR, Technology Transfer & Open Science” workshop was a one day meeting, gathering stakeholders research and innovation ecosystems to ask whether frictions between the IPR laws regulating the freedom of movement of knowledge and the Open Science principles could challenge the progression of Open Science. The workshop aimed to bring together a wide range of expertise to answer the following questions: ● How do you strike the right balance between IPR protection and Open Science? ● How do you achieve the proper balance between the need to freely access data and the need for copyright protections? ● What is the best governance structure and copyright model for the future European Open Science Cloud to be launched in the next 18 months? These three questions were addressed in three separate sessions: Session 1 – The Interplay between Open Science Policy and IPR Session 2 – The Impact of IPR on Open Data Session 3 – The Impact of IPR and Privacy Rules on Research Data Infrastructures. Source: https://publications.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/8294fcb4-8df7-11e7-b92d-01aa75ed71a1/language-en