National Open Science Strategy 2023-2027
Open science involves an evolution of the way scientific knowledge is produced, financed, communicated and evaluated. It represents an important paradigm shift in the activities of research, dissemination of results and measurement of research performance that affects both the life sciences, physics, engineering, mathematics and the social sciences and humanities. Open science contributes to increasing transparency and promotes participation, cooperation, accountability, the ability to reuse research work, impact and reproducibility of results. Likewise, it promotes the democratization and sustainability of R+D+I systems and promotes the diversification of profiles in research groups and the incorporation of non-academic actors throughout the cycle of the research process, from the design of the project to its evaluation.
The National Open Science Strategy (ENCA) for the period 2023-2027 includes all the commitments related to open science adopted by different public agents of the system, those included in the reform of the Law of Science, Technology and Innovation, approved in September 2022, Law 17/2022; the Spanish Strategy of Science, Technology and Innovation 2021-2023; and the State Plan of Scientific, Technological and Innovation Research 2021-2022; in addition to reviewing the international and national context in the field of open science.
- Ensure the existence of sufficiently robust and well-articulated interoperable digital infrastructures to absorb the impact of the implementation of a national open science policy and facilitate their integration into the international ecosystem and their integration, where appropriate, into the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC).
- Promote the proper management of the research data generated by the national R&D&I system through the FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) to increase its localization, accessibility, interoperability and reusability.
- Implement open and free access by default to publications and scientific results financed directly or indirectly with public funds, for all citizens.
- Establish new mechanisms for evaluating research and a system of incentives and recognitions aimed at promoting open science practices, as well as train all staff (researcher, manager, financier, evaluator) to align their professional performance with the principles of open science.
The Strategy will be implemented through concrete measures that guarantee the effective involvement, awareness, training and training of the personnel who will be responsible for this cultural change: research, support, management and citizenship personnel. These measures must be properly coordinated between the agents of financing, execution and evaluation of the research activity and supported by the current legal framework and the action of the Government of Spain as a whole.
The strategic axes on which the ENCA is structured are the following:
- Digital infrastructures for open science.
- Management of research data following the FAIR principles.
- Open access to scientific publications.
- Incentives, recognitions and training.
