Frontiers in Big Data (Dec 2019)

Open Science, Open Data, and Open Scholarship: European Policies to Make Science Fit for the Twenty-First Century

  • Jean-Claude Burgelman,
  • Corina Pascu,
  • Katarzyna Szkuta,
  • Rene Von Schomberg,
  • Athanasios Karalopoulos,
  • Konstantinos Repanas,
  • Michel Schouppe

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3389/fdata.2019.00043
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2

Abstract

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Open science will make science more efficient, reliable, and responsive to societal challenges. The European Commission has sought to advance open science policy from its inception in a holistic and integrated way, covering all aspects of the research cycle from scientific discovery and review to sharing knowledge, publishing, and outreach. We present the steps taken with a forward-looking perspective on the challenges laying ahead, in particular the necessary change of the rewards and incentives system for researchers (for which various actors are co-responsible and which goes beyond the mandate of the European Commission). Finally, we discuss the role of artificial intelligence (AI) within an open science perspective.

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