2025/08/14 Finnish Secretariat for National Coordination of Open Science and Research – OSMI principles: international framework for monitoring open science
“The principles of OSMI can provide support for the development of national AVOTT monitoring. The AVOTT Secretariat participates in the activities of the OSMI working groups and is thus able to immediately utilize the new development proposals and work results generated in them. AVOTT monitoring is already largely in line with the principles of OSMI. Experience from Finland’s national development work is therefore valuable information for the working groups. In the further development of national monitoring, OSMI’s principles and the results of the working groups’ work can be utilized, particularly in the development of qualitative indicators and, in the longer term, also in the self-assessment of monitoring.”
2025/08/07 The Principles of Open Science Monitoring: OpenAIRE contributes to shaping global guidance
“Developed by the Open Science Monitoring Initiative (OSMI) through a collaborative consultation process with nearly 200 experts from six continents, the Principles offer guidance to governments, funders, institutions, and open infrastructure providers as they develop monitoring approaches suited to their unique contexts. The publication responds to the 2021 UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science, which called for the creation of robust frameworks to support national and international efforts to make science more open, inclusive, and impactful.”
2025/07/25 Research Information – Enablers, co-creation, causality: a vision for open science
“A recurring insight was the reframing of monitoring — that is, the tracking of how national systems adopt and implement Open Science practices, from open access publishing to data sharing and citizen science. No longer a technocratic afterthought, monitoring is being redefined as a strategic governance tool to align values, reinforce trust, and enable system-level change. The Open Science Monitoring Initiative (OSMI) was presented as a key vehicle for this shift. Emerging from a global consultation process led by UNESCO and initiated by the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research, OSMI has resulted in a set of internationally endorsed principles – published shortly after the conference – that offer a flexible, modular framework for monitoring. These principles emphasise relevance, transparency, and responsible use, and are designed to support national systems. Prioritising trust, inclusivity, and national readiness over reductive metrics, the OSMI represents a marked departure from legacy approaches. “We are not here to reproduce the H-index,” said OSMI’s co-lead Laetitia Bracco. “We are here to build trust.” That statement crystallised a wider epistemic shift in how monitoring is understood not as passive data collection, but as a negotiation of accountability, value, and knowledge-politics.”
2025/07/10 PLOS – There’s more to research than citations: Understanding knowledge-sharing practices with Open Science Indicators
“Our work on OSIs has enabled us to contribute to and integrate with other global monitoring efforts including the Open Science Monitoring Initiative (OSMI) who have just published their Principles of Open Science Monitoring. We look forward to conducting a self-assessment to evaluate the extent to which OSIs align with these principles.”
2025/05/23 SciLifeLab – Collaborative Initiatives
“SciLifeLab is proud to partner with the Open Science Monitoring Initiative (OSMI) to support the adoption and advancement of Open Science monitoring practices. OSMI brings together individuals and institutions worldwide to collaboratively develop frameworks for monitoring Open Science. The initiative was inspired by the May 2023 G7 Science and Technology Ministers’ meeting in Sendai, where the ministers reaffirmed their strong support for Open Science and emphasised the need to “use research on research to inspire a framework for open science monitoring”.”
2025/03/28 The Domino Effect of Faulty Metadata by Ricardo Hartley Belmar
“We cannot expect every metadata record to be flawless. But we can and must create minimum standards and processes for traceability and correction. Initiatives like COMET, FORCE11, Cross-Domain Interoperability Framework and the Open Science Monitor Initiative, among others, have all emphasized the need for metadata that is both machine-actionable and context-aware. The solution is not to abandon ambition but to declare the uncertainty, label the gaps, and document the provenance.”
2025/03/13 NORF – Dr Michelle Doran joins Open Science Monitoring Initiative (OSMI) Working Groups
“We are pleased to announce that Dr Michelle Doran, the National Open Research Coordinator at NORF has recently joined the Open Science Monitoring Initiative (OSMI) as a member of Working Group 1 (WG1) and Working Group 2 (WG2).”
2025/02/19 Monitoring Open Science in the Netherlands
“In 2025 OS-NL released a tender to develop a national monitoring strategy for the roll-out of Open Science in the Netherlands. The plan to consolidate progress at a national level is timely, and aligns with extra-national activities, including the establishment of the Open Science Monitoring Initiative, consultations from UNESCO for national monitoring strategies, and national-level monitoring already underway from EOSC.”
2025/01/16 – Make Data Count: Advancing data metrics in 2025!
“We will pursue ongoing collaborations with community groups and organizations to build on the existing practices and continue to develop standards for the evaluation of data usage. In 2025, we’ll be working with COUNTER to complete the update to the Code of Practice for Research Data, and will pursue our engagement with the Open Science Monitoring Initiative (OSMI).”
2025/01/03 – OpenPharma Weekly digest: OA funder perspectives, ISMPP Europe 2025 and OSMI working groups
“Happy New Year! In this first digest of 2025, we highlight an upcoming webinar from OASPA about the role of public and private research funders in OA publishing. We remind readers to register for the upcoming 2025 ISMPP Europe meeting in London, UK, and we signpost a call to participate in a series of working groups for the Open Science Monitoring Initiative.”
2024/12/16 – Razpis za člane OSMI je odprt – The call for OSMI members is open
“Open Science Monitoring Initiative (OSMI) združuje institucije in posameznike, ki se ukvarjajo s spremljanjem odprte znanosti. Cilj OSMI je spodbujati sprejemanje načel odprte znanosti po vsem svetu in spodbujati njihovo praktično izvajanje.”
2024/11/28 – Support for UNESCO Draft Principles on Open Science Monitoring
“In its response to the consultation on the Principles of Open Science Monitoring, Science Europe expresses its support for the draft principles, noting their alignment with the priorities and practices of its Member Organisations, as outlined in its October 2024 Survey Report on ‘Strategic Approaches to, and Research Assessment of, Open Science’.”
2024/11/27 – Case studies are vital to monitoring the development of open science
“As a recent consultation on how to monitor open science practices draws to a close, Louise Bezuidenhout, Paola Castaño, Sabina Leonelli, Ismael Rafols and Andrea Vargiu argue that if monitoring frameworks aim to capture the widest dimensions of open science as a practice they should include case studies.”
2024/05/23 – OPUS Open Universal Science
“Earlier this month, the Open Science Monitoring Initiative shared a draft of Open Science monitoring principles, launching a worldwide consultation. We at OPUS are thrilled to see this initiative take shape and fully support the efforts of PLOS and others involved, even though we are not officially participating. Drawing from our experience developing Open Science Indicators, Pilots and Incentives, we understand the importance of building upon collective knowledge and efforts. We are encouraged by the broad engagement of stakeholders from the scholarly community in this important endeavor.”
2024/04/30 A strong open science presence at the ministerial meeting of the OECD’s Committee for Scientific and Technological Policy
“The French presidency restated France’s commitment to opening up science and the need to deal with the obstacles that hinder its progress. It also particularly called for stakeholders to join the Global Research Initiative on Open Science (GRIOS) and the Open Science Monitoring Initiative (OSMI). These two initiatives were proposed as levers to be used to overcome obstacles to the progress of open science, particularly the lack of knowledge and indicators.”