The OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) has just released its study on ‘Making Open Science a Reality’.
This document also comprises individual country notes available here.
The report preface summarises well the significance of the study and its contents:
Science is the mother of the digital age. And yet, twenty-two years after CERN placed the World Wide Web software in the public domain, effectively creating the open internet, science itself has struggled not only to “go digital” but also to “go open”. This report, Making open science a reality reviews the progress in OECD countries in making the results of publicly funded research, namely scientific publications and research data openly accessible to researchers and innovators alike.
The report i) reviews the policy rationale behind open science and open data; ii) discusses and presents evidence on the impacts of policies to promote open science and open data; iii) explores the legal barriers and solutions to greater access to research data; iv) provides a description of the key actors involved in open science and their roles; and finally v) assesses progress in OECD and selected non-member countries based a survey of recent policy trends.
This project was carried out as a part of the activities of the OECD’s Working Party on Innovation and Technology Policy (TIP).
Find out more:
- ‘Making Open Science a Reality’ Report
- Country Notes
- The Innovation Policy Platform
- The OECD’s website