Course programme (modules)

Unit 1. Introduction: science, scientific research and open science

• Open science and its impact on current research (opening conference).
• Open science: background and evolution of the concept, motivations and components.
• The research cycle from a researcher’s perspective.
• Open science: institutional, national and European strategies, roadmaps, policies and plans.

Unit 2. Scientific integrity, transparency and replicability

• Responsible research and innovation. Concept. Importance and relation to open science.
• Research integrity: ethical, legal and regulatory aspects. Codes of conduct. Good practices.
• RRI in research policies, reports and institutional actions. European code of conduct for research integrity – ALLEA. Examples of good practices.
• Evolution of peer review models. Principles and challenges of open peer review.

Unit 3. Management of research data in accordance with FAIR principles

• Types and characteristics of research data.
• Open data and FAIR principles.
• Planning research data management: data management plans (DMP). Tools for developing DMPs.
• Policies, strategies and requirements for research data management.
• Data creation, reuse and processing. Storage, organization, formats, anonymization and ethical issues.
• Publication, dissemination and preservation of data: data repositories, characteristics and types. The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC).

Unit 4. Scientific communication in an open access environment

• Present and future of scientific communication. Open science and its impact. Predatory journals and publishers. Megajournals. Transformative agreements. New publication platforms: Open Research Europe.
• Avenues for open access publishing. Types. Characteristics. Complementarity. Publishing policies in relation to open access. Directories: Sherpa Romeo.
• Open access journals and monographs. DOAJ and DOAB directories. OAPEN platform.
• The preprint paradigm. Transformation of academic publishing. Associated benefits. Compatibility with publishing houses.
• Interoperability and infrastructures: national, international and disciplinary contexts. Academic journal sites. Content aggregators.

Unit 5. Assessing research in an open access environment

• Current situation. Purpose of assessment. Actors and policies. Quantitative and qualitative assessment. Bibliometric indicators.
• Declarations and ongoing debates: San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), Leiden Manifesto, ‘The Metric Tide’ and Open Science Career Assessment Matrix (OS-CAM).
• Proposals and references for a change in the assessment model. Reasons for change. International initiatives: Norwegian Career Assessment Matrix (NOR-CAM), Strategy Evaluation Protocol of the Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU). Initia-tives in the Catalan and Spanish context.

Unit 6. Science with and for society: citizen science, open educational resources and the openGLAM movement

• Citizen science. Principles. The social impact of research. Participatory contributions. Co-creation.
• Open educational resources. Characteristics and convergence with open science. Sharing and reuse licences. Specialized sources. Initiatives and examples.
• OpenGLAM resources. Principles. Open cultural heritage. Collaborative curation. Initiatives and examples.