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An Analysis of Open Science Policies in Europe - New report from DCC and SPARC Europe

Today we, in collaboration with SPARC Europe are publishing the fourth version of the Analysis of Open Science Policies in Europe report  which demonstrates a move towards a stronger focus on open research data, and open science across European science policy landscape.  

Thordis Sveinsdottir | 30 August 2019

 

SPARC Europe and the DCC have collaborated since 2017 on reviewing Open Science Policies in Europe.  Our report has to date been downloaded over 5000 times and we have had feedback from users who find this a useful resource to draw on in their work, whether for research purposes or policy making.  Today we are publishing the fourth version of the report, which demonstrates a move towards a stronger focus on open research data, and open science more generally across European science policy landscape.  We have also noted a few instances of FAIR data being mentioned in policy papers, for example in Ireland.

We welcome your input! 

We have been planning to change the structure of this paper to allow for better analysis and comparison, and we would very much like the input of the user community to guide us in these changes.  We have to this end set up a short web survey, which should only take around 5 minutes to complete.  You can access the survey here, or alternatively you can send us a line on social media or email me at thordis.sveinsdottir@ed.ac.uk.