The Committee for Open Science
The mission of this committee is to propose the directions that Open Science should take and to teach the subjects on questions of Open Science, as well as to animate and accompany the actions associated with it, in a fluid structure that simplifies the expression of ideas, suggestions and contributions, and their transmission to the different working groups.
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To accompany the development of Open Science in a dynamic fashion and to co-ordinate it on the National, European and international scale, the plan of the Digital Scientific Library (BSN) has evolved, and it has been transformed into the Committee for Open Science.
Description for the committee
Structure of the committee
The Steering Committee for Open Science ensures the implementation of a policy supporting open publications and research data.
The committee's missions are:
- To ensure the coordinated implementation with higher education and research of a national plan aimed at making all publications and research data openly available;
- To enable the development of open science skills in the scientific community;
- To coordinate national action in the field of open science on the European and international levels;
- To define the principles and directions to be adopted concerning the assignment of financing from the national fund for open science and how it is used;
- To define the principles and directions to be adopted for negotiations with the main scientific publishers;
- To propose all actions likely to strengthen or promote the access to knowledge or research data to ministers of higher education and research and all public authorities.
The Committee for Open Science is equipped with a steering body, the steering committee for open science, and a technical committee to ensure the articulation between steering, the groups, and the forum.
The president of the steering committee for open science is the Chief Executive Officer of research and innovation (DGRI).
Steering committee for Open Science
- The Chief Executive Officer of Research and Innovation, President of the commitee;
- The Chief Executive Officer of Higher Education and Professional Insertion;
- The Presidents of the CPU, CDEFI, CGE and CURIF;
- The Presidents and Chief Executive Officers of the CNRS, Inra, Inria, and Inserm, and the Chief Administrative Officer of the CEA;
- The President and vice-president of Couperin (Unified Consortium of Higher Education and Research Organizations for Access to Digital Publications);
- The President and Chief Executive Officer of the ANR (French National Research Agency);
- The President of HCERES (High Council for Evaluation of Research and Higher Education)
- One or several qualified people who are competent in the field of open science. These qualified representatives will be designated for a renewable two-year period by the Chief Executive Officer of Research and Innovation;
The permanent secretariat for open science (SPSO)
The permanent secretariat, led by the Advisor for Open Science to the Chief Science Officer of the Chief Executive Officer of Research and Innovation (DGRI), is responsible for preparing the work of the Steering committee for Open Science and for ensuring the implementation of its activities, orientations and conclusions. It coordinates the work of the colleges and working groups, referring subjects to the groups and summarizing their contributions. The permanent secretariat is made up of:- the DGRI's Advisor for Open Science,
- the head of the higher education and research strategy coordination department,
- the assistant director of strategic steering and territories,
- representatives of the CPU, the Curif, the CDEFI and the CGE,
- representatives of the three associations dedicated to STI and libraries - Couperin, ADBU, EPRIST,
- representatives of the presidents of the CNRS, the Inra, the INRIA and the Inserm,
- the representative of the The President and Chief Executive Officer of the ANR,
- those in charge of steering the colleges.
Colleges and groups
The composition of the colleges and groups, their missions and projects, as well as their deliverables are accessible from the Group tab.- Publications college
- Open Archives sub-group
- Open scientific Publishing sub-group
- Research data college
- Europe and international college
- Skills and training college
- Evaluation Project
- Constructing bibliodiversity project group
- Free Software and open source project group
- Observatory of information practices project group
- Conditor project
- Visa TM project
- Guide to application of the digital law project
- DoRANum project
