Future of Open Science

Overcoming barrierss

The discussion of opening up science as a movement is connected to a differentiation of principles concerning open methodology, source, access, peer review and educational resources (OpenScience (OpenScience ASAP, 2015). 2015). Sayogo and Pardo for example give a detailed literature overview about technological, social, organisational and economical, legal and policy barriers of data sharing (data-bib-key="Sayogo_2013" data-bib-text="@article{Sayogo_2013, doi = {10.1016/j.giq.2012.06.011}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.giq.2012.06.011}, year = 2013, month = {jan}, publisher = {Elsevier {BV}}, volume = {30}, pages = {S19--S31}, author = {Djoko Sigit Sayogo and Theresa A. Pardo}, title = {Exploring the determinants of scientific data sharing: Understanding the motivation to publish research data}, journal = {Government Information Quarterly} }"> Quarterly} }" data-bib-key="Sayogo_2013"> href="#Sayogo_2013">Sayogo 2013). data-bib-key="Brembs_2015" data-bib-text="@article{Brembs_2015, doi = {10.1515/iwp-2015-0027}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/iwp-2015-0027}, year = 2015, month = {jan}, publisher = {Walter de Gruyter {GmbH}}, volume = {66}, number = {2-3}, author = {Björn Brembs}, title = {Open Science als eine Lösung der Infrastrukturkrise in der Wissenschaft}, journal = {Information - Wissenschaft {\&} Praxis} }"> Praxis} }" data-bib-key="Brembs_2015"> href="#Brembs_2015">Brembs 2015 states controversially that there exist no technical problems to practice Open Science, including a digital infrastructure. However, there is no one-fits-all technical solution for all institutions. Integrating the long tail of science can be time consuming and needs technical skills. Instead of relying on institutional repositories, small institutions could offer their research output on external platforms. Scientific articles have been bibliographically registered for a long time. Nowadays we register data, presentations, teaching material etc. on platforms like zenodo (www.zenodo.org).

Openness concerning data is supported by the global initiative Research Data Alliance. It responds to the increasing importance of data in the scientific landscape from a bottom-up approach (data-bib-key="Treloar_2014" data-bib-text="@article{Treloar_2014, doi = {10.1087/20140503}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1087/20140503}, year = 2014, month = {sep}, publisher = {Wiley-Blackwell}, volume = {27}, number = {5}, pages = {9--13}, author = {Andrew Treloar}, title = {The Research Data Alliance: globally co-ordinated action against barriers to data publishing and sharing}, journal = {Learned Publishing} }"> Publishing} }" data-bib-key="Treloar_2014"> href="#Treloar_2014">Treloar 2014). And as Tenopir 2014 et al.(2014) conclude: "Many of the librarians who work in academic research libraries feel they have the subject knowledge necessary to help their constituents […], but need the opportunity to take advantage of continuing education." Therefore, librarians "need opportunities to learn more about these services either on their own campus or through attendance at workshops and professional conferences". This is an aspect that should be transferred to all technical staff at central service departments.