4th Open Science FAIR Conference

Conference

Why ?

Open science (also referred to as Open Scholarship or Open Research) is at a crossroads. Implementation and adoption are progressing, with researchers, research institutions, funding agencies, service providers and infrastructures all engaging at various levels. However, different models are emerging which produce a seemingly fragmented ecosystem and achieve small steps on top of traditional scholarly communication system. In order to enable international and interdisciplinary research, we need to ensure interoperability across communities and services while still maintaining our ability to support diversity of workflows and knowledge systems.

Who?

OS FAIR 2023 is organised as an emblematic initiative of OpenAIRE, a not-for-profit organisation to ensure a permanent open scholarly communication infrastructure to support European researc. This year the event will be co-organized with FECYT, from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, key European projects and global initiatives.

What?

OS FAIR 2023 aims to bring together and empower open science communities and services; to identify common practices related to open science; to see what are the best synergies to deliver and operate services that work for many; and to bring experiences from all around the world and learn from each other

Conference topics

CHARTING THE COURSE: REIMAGINING OPEN SCIENCE FOR NEXT GENERATIONS

Advancing and reforming research assessment (RRA) and Open Science; connections, barriers and way ahead

Alternative assessment approaches
How to value all contributions to the scholarly process?
Equity, diversity, and inclusion
Funding & institutional support

AI impact on Open Science and Open Science impact on AI

AI tools and platforms impact for research
Ethical considerations
Natural Language processing, Machine Learning and Knowledge Representation
Copyright and legal aspects (text and data mining, reproducibility, transparency, reusability of training and trained models and access to training materials for reproducibility)

Innovation & disruption in scholarly publishing

New emerging publishing models
Diamond Open Access; regional initiatives, projects and plans
Rights Retention; primary and secondary publishing rights,
Multilingualism in academic publishing

FAIR Data, software & hardware

Collaborative development
Open licensing and the new wave of EU data legislation.
Reproducibility
Interoperability

Openness in research & education

Open Education
Open Educational resources (OERs)

Public Engagement & Citizen Science

Community driven research initiatives
Tools and technology for public engagement
Open data and scientific literacy

Date and Hour

Venue

Madrid, Spain

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