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SPK adopts Open Science Declaration
Press release from 02/07/2022
Open access to scientific knowledge as a central field of action for the SPK - new Open Science Declaration adopted
Open science is not only a key issue in science and research, but also in the cultural sector and in society in general. In addition to Open Access, this also requires Open Data and Open / Reproducible Research, i.e. making scientific data and knowledge accessible at all levels. The SPK supports this approach and the structural change that goes hand in hand with it and has therefore fundamentally revised and expanded its previous guidelines for Open Access.
Hermann Parzinger, President of the SPK, says: "By making our data and research results available, we want to support the scientific communities and make it easier to work with our collections and holdings. We also want to create the basis for more broad social participation, for example in the context of citizen science projects."
A central point of the foundation's new Open Science guidelines are measures to digitise and make accessible collections in the public domain and to make multimedia cultural data freely usable. This also includes the release of object-describing metadata and content-related cataloguing information. The aim is also to utilise quality-assured open access platforms for publications and research results. Existing journals and publication series are to be transferred to open access.
Employees will be supported in taking greater account of the open science concept in their work in future: In future, primary scientific publications and the research data on which they are based are to be published in quality-assured open access journals and publication series. Digital secondary versions of conventional publications are to be archived in open access repositories.
Within the Foundation, the State Library (SBB) and the Ibero-American Institute (IAI) have already established corresponding infrastructures for open access publications. In addition, the digital copies produced by the SBB and the IAI are generally labelled with an open licence for the widest possible use.
More at:
www.preussischer-kulturbesitz.de/schwerpunkte/digitalisierung/open-science.html
