The Nature Index Research Leaders 2024  highlights the rapid growth of Asian research institutes, particularly in India and China, and a decline in Western research predominance. Chinese institutions dominate the top ten positions, while India shows significant growth. European and North American countries, except Denmark, generally recorded declines in their adjusted shares. The Nature Index is an open database of author affiliations and institutional relationships. It tracks contributions to research articles published in 145 natural science and health science publications chosen by an independent group of researchers.

This seminar took place in Paris on 27 and 28 March 2024. The aim was to discuss the results of the project A comparative analysis of open science, access and circulation of knowledge in Latin America and Africa supported by the Global Research Institute of Paris (GRIP) in 2023. This project consisted of an international survey aimed at nationally rated researchers based in five countries. The survey intended to explore perceptions, publishing experiences in open access, position-takings towards APC costs and the challenges these entail. In this context, Janne Pölönen, Secretary General for Publication Forum at Federation of Finnish Learned Societies, presented Diamond Open Access is fundamental for making multilingual scientific knowledge openly available, accessible and reusable for everyone.

The French Ministry of Higher Education and Research, Université de Lorraine and Inria launched in April 2024 the  website of the Open Science Monitoring Initiative, dedicated to encourage the adoption of open science monitoring principles and to promote their practical implementation. Many initiatives and guidelines already exist in the field of open science monitoring, whether it be with a national or international scope. However, there is yet no common understanding nor framework of open science monitoring. This is necessary to reach a global agreement on a set of Principles that could set a guide for present and future initiatives about Open Science Monitoring.

A large share of all research information is locked inside proprietary infrastructures. To advance responsible research assessment and open science and to promote unbiased high-quality decision making, there is an urgent need to make research information openly available through open scholarly infrastructures. The signatories of the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information commit to taking a lead in transforming the way research information is used and produced. Openness of information about the conduct and communication of research must be the new norm.

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UNESCO report shows that since 2021, eleven more countries have adopted open science policies. But there are to persistent problems with rising costs and uneven geographical spread. Today, nearly 85% of open access repositories are in western Europe and North America. More needs to be done to ensure open access is the norm everywhere, with UNESCO encouraging its member states to take action in seven areas. Moreover, in February 2023, EU science ministers adopted a joint call to make immediate and unrestricted open access publishing “the default mode in publishing, with no fees for authors.”

Selon l’édition 2023 du Baromètre de la Science Ouverte (BSO), 65 % des 160 000 publications scientifiques françaises parues en 2022 sont en accès ouvert en décembre 2023, soit un taux stable par rapport à l’année précédente.

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In the context of the UNESCO Open Science Recommendation adopted in November 2021, this comparative study is based on a recent work on the evolving concepts of research software, research data in the context of Open Science. The goal is to better visualize and describe the relationships between the stakeholders of this changing landscape. The study concludes on the need for new concepts to analyze the context as well as to contribute to ongoing research-on-research. This is also necessary to improve the implementation of Open Science practices, in order to foster better ways towards a sound, inclusive and fairer Open Science landscape.

La Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología (FECYT) y OpenAIRE han organizado la Conferencia Open Science FAIR, el Congreso Internacional de Ciencia Abierta, bajo el lema “Trazando el curso: re-imaginando la ciencia abierta para las próximas generaciones”. El evento, que se enmarca en la Presidencia española del Consejo de la Unión Europea durante el segundo semestre 2023, se ha celebrado a fines de septiembre 2023 en el Museo Reina Sofía y el Ateneo de Madrid y ha reunido a más de 350 profesionales del ámbito europeo e iberoamericano.

eLife has launched the Global South Committee for Open Science, with the aim of learning directly from its peers in the Global South on how best to promote equitable collaboration and inclusion in scientific publishing. Researchers from the Global South are often underrepresented and minoritised in scientific publishing. eLife says its new model  has the potential to make publishing a more inclusive enterprise, offering the benefits of scholarly review while giving authors more agency in the publishing process.

This comprehensive review explores the landscape of open science in the Western Balkan Countries (WBCs), offering insights into existing policies, infrastructure, and practices. The review is structured into four sections, each shedding light on crucial aspects of open science: Open Science /Open Access (OS/OA) policies in WBC; OS/OA repositories within the region; OA practices, elucidating the prevalence of national OA scientific journal in Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). The final section examines the intersection of OS/OA and public engagement, particularly within the realm of psychology.