2026/09/16 – Launch of the French Open Science Strategy 2026-2033
“Goal SO4.A3.M2 Continue the development of the Open Science Monitoring Initiative (OSMI)
Initially a French initiative, OSMI is now being developed in collaboration with UNESCO and other French and international partners. It aims to define principles for monitoring open science indicators and harmonising them at the international level.”
2026/09/07 – Core open science practices in major medical journals: development of an automatized tool based on a Large Language Model
“The importance of actively monitoring these practices has been recognized at the highest levels of scientific governance. The Hong Kong Principles advocate for researchers to be evaluated based on the transparency and openness of their work. UNESCO’s 2021 Recommendation on Open Science and the G7 Science, echoed by initiatives like the Open Science Monitoring Initiative (OSMI), have similarly underscored monitoring as a priority. A consensus is also emerging on which practices should be tracked: a core set of 19 open science practices has been proposed as reference indicators for systematic monitoring in biomedicine, based on a Delphi study.”
2026/06/18 – Open Here, There, and Everywhere? A Comparative Review of Divergences in Open Access Typologies and Definitions in Monitoring Instruments – Louis Bachaud, Didier Torny
“Our review of Open Access definitions and typologies was conducted on a global dataset of Open Access monitors drawn from two sources. Firstly, Schneider and Pampel’s (2025) open dataset of Open Science dashboards (n=58). Secondly, the list of Open Science monitors curated by the Open Science Monitoring Initiative (n=73)”. (…) “The Principles of Open Science Monitoring call for indicators that are both comparable and context-sensitive. This double stake highlights the ambiguity of OA monitors, which have both epistemic aims (empirically documenting academic publishing) and more normative policy objectives”.