Conference Agenda

The paper provides a general overview of the draft, approved, and implemented open research data and data-sharing policies of the Indian research funding agencies. The Government of India, under its various ministries, departments, and autonomous agencies/bodies/councils/boards, provides funds to many academic and research organizations to fuel scientific research, advancements, and innovations across disciplines/fields in the country. The study identifies and provides an overview of the policies of the Indian research funding agencies/bodies encompassing research data management, data sharing, open data, accessibility, etc. First, extensive Google searches were made to find policy information using different keywords related to the research study. A list of Indian funding agencies that have such policies was prepared. Then, their websites were searched manually, and the required policy documents were downloaded/collected. It was found that not all funding agencies have such open data or data sharing and access policies in place. Funding departments, agencies/bodies from only 18 Government Ministries and 02 Autonomous Departments, which constitute only 33% of Ministries, have open data management, data sharing policies, and data repositories/archives in their system. The study covers policies from only selected Indian funding agencies/government bodies, i.e., DST, ICAR, ICSSR, DBT, ICMR, DGH, NIC, CSIR, ISRO, and NSE.

Until now, many Government of Canada scientists and researchers have not had the infrastructure to make their scientific publications openly available. This gap has been addressed by the Federal Open Science Repository of Canada (FOSRC), a shared repository that launched January 2024 to make federally funded scientific outputs accessible to all. The FOSRC, which will help meet key recommendations of Canada’s Roadmap for Open Science, is a horizontal initiative among federal departments. Collaborators include the Office of Chief Science Advisor of Canada, Shared Service Canada, the Federal Science Libraries Network/National Research Council Canada, and eight science-based departments and agencies.

The primary goal of this repository is to deliver a practical solution for a policy-driven recommendation to provide transparency and open access to Canadian research. The approach to this large-scale project was to establish a collaboration model for governance, operations, and technical development. Within this model, a business owner was established to work through governance committees for decision-making; oversee financial and operations management; liaise on product development; and ensure success for the strategic vision. Undertaking a shared repository project with varied interests is challenging and rewarding, requiring clear strategic direction, financial support, flexibility, and close collaboration.

This lightning talk presentation aims to present the integration of services from repository managers, both from OpenAIRE and EOSC to make repositories and their contents interoperable and discoverable by a wider audience.

Institutional Repositories among other kind of data sources are key players to promote research transparency, by offering services to publish research results in open access, contributing to the fulfilment of the open science principles, specifically to make scholarly research accessible to everyone, and to increase its impact on society. On this context, OpenAIRE and EOSC-Future project are offering integrated services and interoperability guidelines to increase the interoperability and visibility of data sources and research results.

The integration between OpenAIRE PROVIDE and EOSC Service Provider Dashboard contributes to simplify processes, where on the one hand OpenAIRE allows the registration and content aggregation and, on the other, EOSC allows it to be displayed on its marketplace, contributing to improve the discoverability of repositories and their content, without duplicating efforts by the repository manager.

This lightning talk will outline the main procedures to onboard data sources in EOSC, clarifying the integration between OpenAIRE services and EOSC, aiming to clarify data source managers about its use and main benefits.

Qatar has witnessed substantial growth in its research landscape, marking a strategic shift towards a knowledge-driven economy. This evolution, crucial for sustaining national development and improving living standards, is supported by key entities like the Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF). However, challenges persist in ensuring transparency due to decentralized research data management practices across institutions. This presentation addresses these challenges, emphasizing the importance of a nationally coordinated approach. It highlights the role of Qatar National Library's (QNL) Manara Data Repository in promoting transparency, curation, and Open Access to Qatari research output. Manara's operational model features a comprehensive metadata schema, promoting discoverability and potential reuse. The repository advocates for Open Access licenses and encourages FAIR data management practices, fostering collaboration and transparency in Qatar's research community. Join us to explore Manara's impact on enhancing research transparency and openness, contributing to Qatar's journey towards a knowledge-based economy aligned with national objectives.

Research integrity, vital for scientific credibility and public trust, extends to the quality, reliability, and credibility of scientific literature. Open repositories play a pivotal role in upholding scientific publication integrity by facilitating the deposit, preservation, and dissemination of diverse publications and ensuring open and high-quality metadata.

HAL, the French national open archive, underscores institutional affiliation, publication version, and peer review status. HAL has established dedicated procedures to organize and address reports of research integrity breaches concerning HAL publications, involving the user community in the process. The initiative led to the publication of detailed statements of policies and submission requirements. Additionally, it facilitated updates to the archive's terms of use with a clear definition of mutual responsibilities, the design of a process diagram, and the establishment of an authority composed of research integrity officers from academic institutions to support HAL managers.

The presentation will cover the legal, ethical and organisational issues adressed, outlining upcoming measures to ensure metadata provenance, traceability, conflict management, and synchronization.

Open Access to publications and data, made possible by Repositories, holds the promise of increasing visibility of research (as it has the potential for more people to discover and download research outputs); transparency of research, allowing for verifications and reproducibility; interdisciplinary research and increase in collaborations; citations; and societal benefits such as a more democratic and equitable world. But is it so? Some studies have already dealt with one or more of these topics, but a more holistic approach seems to be lacking.

PathOS is a Horizon Europe project aiming to collect evidence of Open Science effects, by studying the impact pathways (context, resources, activities, outputs, outcomes and impacts), doing an extensive literature review, studying the causal effects, producing a Handbook of Open Science Indicators and applying selected indicators into six case studies, four of them based on publication repositories, data repositories and open infrastructures. This talk details how the indicators were selected and are being operationalized by the latter, making the case for their use and the investment in these open infrastructures.