The University policy for open access to publications and research data and products.
Open Science is a movement born with the intent to make scientific research and its dissemination accessible to the scientific community and citizens. It is a political priority for the and the standard working method in its research and innovation funding programs, aiming to improve the quality, efficiency, and responsiveness of research. The European Commission has identified eight pillars on which the objectives of Open Science are based: FAIR Data, Research Integrity, Next Generation Metrics, Future of Scholarly Communication, Citizen Science, Education and Skills, Rewards and incentives, and European Open Science Cloud (EOSC).
The goal is to open scientific knowledge to external participation and evaluation so that it can be improved and reused for the benefit of society as a whole.
The application areas of Open Science principles are manifold, concerning both the accessibility of publications and research data, as well as the research processes leading to these results. Open Science thus includes all aspects that amplify the impact of research on our society: open educational resources, software, hardware, open infrastructures for knowledge creation and sharing, citizen and other social actor involvement, and all forms of dissemination.
UnivAQ fully shares the principles of Open Science [in italian]. All research, without distinction between applied and basic, is essential to address global challenges, but innovative ideas can only produce the hoped-for progress of society if they are shared.
Achieving Open Science (Open Science and Open Scholarship) requires a cultural change among all research world actors in the way they create, store, share, and communicate results, thus contributing to achieve true Open Access [in italian] to publications and research data and products.
For universities, adopting the principles, policies, and practices of Open Science means promoting and managing a complex and multi-dimensional transition process, which necessarily varies from institution to institution.
Open Science at the University of L'Aquila
University of L'Aquila has included Open Science in its strategic plan 2020-2025, committing to the path of building open, transparent, and shared science. This path involves implementing the "University Policy for open access to publications and research data and products" [in italian], which aims to ensure the maximum dissemination and sharing of scientific results produced by the University, promoting the deposit of all scientific contributions in digital open access version in the institutional research archive . The Policy, which also covers research data and doctoral theses, commits the University to support other forms of open access through agreements with publishers and the promotion of institutional editorial services.
University of L'Aquila is committed to developing directives and guidelines to promote and support open science among researchers. These guidelines, continuously updated and completed, may include a series of practices and policies aimed at promoting transparency, reproducibility, and accessibility of research results.
UnivAQ recognizes the importance of research accessibility, transparency in validation and evaluation processes, and the need to make the results of research conducted at the University visible to everyone, even outside traditional publication channels.
Therefore, the University fully commits to the principles of Open Science also through the creation of a diamond open access journal platform (Open Access journals and initiatives) .
Furthermore, UnivAQ is among the universities that signed the Agreement on reforming research assessment by (Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment), which recognizes Open Science as a qualifying and central activity in research evaluation.
