I had the great opportunity to be part of the CERN-NASA working group “Infrastructure for Open Scholarship”. This working group was established following the 2023 CERN-NASA Summit “Accelerating the Adoption of Open Science”. As a result of the summit, a closing statement was published, outlining key areas of action for Open Science (Tananbaum et al. 2023). Under the umbrella of the Open Research Funders Group (ORFG) and with financial support
CERN/NASA Summit: "Accelerating the Adoption of Open Science" Closing Statement. Disclaimer: translations of this document are the result of a community-driven effort, and may therefore vary in their level of accuracy.This translation was made possible thanks to the contributions of: French version Eric Emsellem Eunice Mercado-Lara German version Alexander Kohls Tanja Friedrich Sunje Dallmeier-Tiessen Roland Bertelmann Heinz Pampel Spanish version Julieta Arancio Eunice Mercado-Lara Chinese version Zhijun YI Arabic version Salman Matalgah Mustafa Alzu'bi
After the 2023 CERN-NASA Summit “Accelerating the Adoption of Open Science”, a group of participants highlighted the need for science funders to consider infrastructure as a key prerequisite of open science policies. The experts understand that current lack of support for the mechanisms for sharing data, articles, code, and designs is undermining effective adoption of open science. The goal of these principles is to provide high-level orientation to science funders, including national councils, universities, and research institutes, so open infrastructure has the support it needs for sustainable open science strategies. The document consists of a core set of principles plus a desirable list of recommendations for those already addressing infrastructure in open science. These recommendations for funders are accompanied by a set of principles for open infrastructure projects that complements the first set and aims to increase the quality of service provided to researchers and institutions. The group aims to emphasize that the principles for infrastructure initiatives do not have a prescriptive approach; instead the goal should be to foster good practices in the field. This work intends to add and build on the corpus of work that has been undertaken globally in this area, some of which is referenced at the end of this document. As any global framework, it will need to be regionally situated to ensure feasibility, efficacy and sustainability in a diversity of contexts.