The Open Science Monitoring Initiative (OSMI) has launched its working groups
On December 4th 2024, the Open Science Monitoring Initiative (OSMI) organised its first public meeting – an opportunity to present the reasons underpinning the initiative along with the results of the consultation on the principles for monitoring open science. The final version of the report on these monitoring principles is currently being written. A call for participation in working groups was also launched on December 4th.
The OSMI was set up following the publication of the Sendai Communiqué in May 2023 by the G7’s science and technology ministers. The initiative was in turn launched by the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research, the Université de Lorraine and the Inria and benefits from strong support from UNESCO. SPARC Europe, PLOS and the Berlin Institute of Health are also involved. The OSMI’s objectives are to promote the adoption and practical implementation of open science monitoring principles.
The fundamental principles guiding the initiative, retained after consultation, are as follows:
- Acknowledging the diversity of Open Science monitoring approaches throughout the world
- Providing guidelines to encourage pooling, comparisons and reuse when possible
- Helping stakeholders like countries, research performing organisations and international organisations to set up their own monitoring tools
- Global aim: monitor a comprehensive transformation to open science and its impacts on the research ecosystem and on society
Six working groups have been identified to work on these principles:
- Scoping the Needs of Open Science Monitoring
- Understanding the open science monitoring landscape
- Open science monitoring with scholarly content providers
- Shared resources and infrastructure to analyze scholarly outputs
- Implementation of open science monitors and capacity building
- Technical specifications starting with publications, research data, software…
The first four working groups will begin work in the coming weeks while WG5 and WG6 will be launched following the adoption of the final version of the principles.
If you would like to be part of the working groups, please contact OSMI.
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