The Winter 2021 (3:1) issue of Data Intelligence, an open access journal published by MIT Press is a special issue on Open Science. It includes Editors’ Note; a commentary, “Politics and Open Science: how the European Union Science Cloud became a reality” with 8 responses; 10 vision papers; and 5 practice papers. The editors quote Michael Nielson’s definition:
“OS is the idea that scientific knowledge of all kinds should be openly shared as early as is practical in the discovery process”
They set out to cover both current policy and practices with selected conference papers and invited papers and note the distinction between “open by publication” and “open by design”, the former relying on librarians and others to retrospectively curate works after publication and the latter requiring redesigning researcher processes to make outputs available along the way. This is an interesting issue, and it includes more content than I could read, let alone detail, even in a long month. I will be dipping into these articles going forward, because they dig into the evolution from the original conception of open access as journal article publication to the broader practice of open scholarship/science across disciplines, research processes and output types (data, metadata, protocols, software, etc.).
