Open science

Doing Open Science means doing research in a different, collaborative way, gradually starting to use the tools that allow you to open up every step of the research process.

Doing Open Science involves reviewing your way of doing research, moving from the logic of "publishing" to that of "sharing" all the elements of research as soon as possible and in the most open way possible, starting from the practices of co-creation of knowledge, in dialogue with society.

It is absolutely not incompatible with current practices of research evaluation. Many small parallel actions can be carried out that do not undermine, but rather favour, the careers of researchers, because they maximize the visibility of all the elements of research. Research evaluation, moreover, is undergoing a profound transformation thanks to the COARA initiative - also signed by the University of Turin – according to which the new criteria should reward openness and sharing.

The underlying logic is that each element of the process is a “block” useful for the construction of new knowledge and, for this reason, it must be made available to the entire community, as well as evaluated for the researchers’ career.

Open Science includes practices such as:

• FAIR Open (research) Data, Open Access, Open Educational Resources
• Open Methodology, including Open Notebooks
• Pre-Registration
• Open Source
• Open Peer Review.

The data must be FAIR - Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable - that is, they must provide other interested researchers with all the information useful for correct reuse and to give credit to original researchers.

A key element of Open Science is Citizen Science, the science of citizens, understood as the active participation of citizens in data collection and research practices.