2025/03/28 The Domino Effect of Faulty Metadata – 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.