This draft document was prepared by Claire Redhead and Iryna Kuchma to focus on aspects of the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science which apply to open access publishers who want to implement the recommendation, and was shared during the OASPA webinar held on 15th March 2022: Policy into Action: the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science under the spotlight – actions for publishing. Community feedback is welcome and the updated draft will be reviewed with UNESCO as a resource to support their work on the wider implementation of the Recommendation.

The presentations and videos of the OSEC 2022 conference held in Paris on 4 and 5 February 2022, are available from the OSEC 2022 website.

The online conference brought together more than 2,000 participants from five continents. The discussions on how to renovate research assessment were at the heart of these days and were a major step towards building a coalition for research assessment reform under the aegis of the European Commission, after the release of the Paris Call on Research Assessment.

Watch the videos on Canal-U:

• English version
• French version

More on the conference (in  French) by the CNRS (French National Centre for Scientific Research).

The Council’s second Action Plan will guide the Council’s work until the end of 2024. It builds on ISC activities and achievements to date, reflects the lessons that have been learned in implementing the first Action Plan (2019 – 2021), and responds to the evolving global context within which science operates.

This document presents the Council’s prospective scientific and organizational priorities and related activities for the 2022–2024 period. Two projects are particularly interesting: The future of scientific publishing and Open Science in the global South.

This text was prepared by the French Open Science Committee and presented to the Paris Open Science European Conference (OSEC) held in Paris on 4^th and 5^th February 2022, organised by the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union, following the publication of the UNESCO recommendation on Open Science and the publication by the European Commission Towards a reform of the research assessment system: scoping report. The Open Science European Conference (OSEC) 2022 calls notably for the creation of a coalition of research organisations willing and committed to reform the current research assessment system. The videos of the conference will be soon published on the conference website.

The study demonstrates that while data deposit can be accommodated by the existing metadata requirements of multi-purpose IRs, their metadata practices do little to prioritize data deposit or to promote data discovery. Evidence indicates that data discovery will benefit from additional metadata elements.

On 20 September 2021, FAIRsFAIR organised the workshop “Learning lessons from FAIR data implementation. Good practices from universities across Europe” during the Open Science Fair 2021. The event offered participants the opportunity to discuss a preliminary analysis of good practices from universities across Europe that are being gathered by the project partners, highlighting the drivers, impact and implementation steps behind initiatives taken by institutions to integrate Research Data Management (RDM) and FAIR data skills in university curricula.

The new IAP Annual Report provides an overview of activities of the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) in 2020, with specific sections on activities by affiliated regional networks AASSA, EASAC, IANAS, and NASAC. The Report also gives evidence of IAP’s focus on providing science advice and promoting cooperation and capacity building among its membership – the world’s merit-based academies of science, medicine and engineering.

You can download the full 2020 IAP Annual Report here.

The virtual 6th meeting of COAR Asia OA will be held 25-27 October 2021. The meeting will discuss the latest trends in open access and open scholarship, with community updates from Asia. Topics include open access infrastructure, open educational resources, open peer review, research data repositories, and tools built on open data. The meeting will be a venue for information exchange between Asian communities.

Registration is open.https://library.smu.edu.sg/asiaoa2021#register

View the programme.

The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) announced that its proposed work item for a Communication of Retractions, Removals, and Expressions of Concern (CORREC) Recommended Practice has been approved by NISO Voting Members.

Retracted research is published work that is withdrawn, removed, or otherwise invalidated from the scientific and scholarly record. Although relatively rare, retracted research can be inadvertently propagated within the digital scholarly record through citations. The CORREC Recommended Practice is intended to help address this problem, by clearly identifying parties involved in the retraction process, along with their responsibilities, actions, notifications, and the metadata necessary to communicate retracted research.