Mapping the State of Open Infrastructure: Insights from OSMI Working Group 4 Cristina Huidiu & Pragya Chaube, Working Group 4 Co-chairs When we talk about open science, we often think about open-access journals or FAIR data. But there’s another layer that quietly powers it all — the infrastructure that captures, connects, and analyses research metadata. …
OSMI is delighted to announce the appointment of five experts to its newly created Steering board, which will take up its duties in 2026. We are honoured to welcome them and look forward to working with them. The entire OSMI team wishes you a wonderful end to 2025!
Applying the Principles of Open Science Monitoring worldwide also means localising them in many languages. Thanks to the collaborative efforts of community members, the Indonesian and Arabic translations of the Principles are available! Read the Principles in Arabic, English, Finnish, French, German, Indonesian, and Spanish: https://open-science-monitoring.org/principles/ Translations into Japanese, Italian, Portuguese, Bengali and Slovenian are …
Open science is gaining momentum, and monitoring its adoption – across research activities and scholarly communications – is essential for its continued progress. To support OSMI’s work on open science monitoring, the OSMI Working Group 3 (WG3) ran a survey of scholarly content providers (publishers and journals, repositories and archives, and platform operators) seeking to …
The call for nominations is closed! OSMI has received 16 expert nominations to the Steering Board. This body will set the main guidelines and strategy for OSMI, oversee the work of the Coordination Committee, and decide on the creation or closure of working groups. Next, the initiators of OSMI will vote to select the 5 …
The Principles of Open Science Monitoring help policymakers, funders, institutions and infrastructures design open science monitoring systems that are: ☑️ Open☑️ Inclusive☑️ Adaptable How do you use the Principles or plan to apply them in your work? Please tell us your plans to work with the Principles through our flash survey! Read the Principles: https://open-science-monitoring.org/principles/
OSMI welcomes nominations of experts to the Steering Board. These five external experts should reflect the regional and stakeholder diversity of Open Science monitoring worldwide. This body will set the main guidelines and strategy for OSMI, oversee the work of the Coordination Committee, and decide on the creation or closure of working groups. Members will …
OSMI Members discussed the next steps for the Principles of Open Science Monitoring, OSMI governance, and updates on the progress of the first working groups at a Plenary meeting on 29 September. We are proud of the working groups’ hard work and vision! Next steps for the Principles Submission to UNESCO Member States The Principles …
🎉 The Principles of Open Science Monitoring have been launched! 📺 Watch the launch recording at the Open Science: Monitoring Progress, Assessing Impact conference that took place on 7 July 2025 at UNESCO in Paris. 👉https://open-science-monitoring.org/events/ The Principles are a framework developed through international collaboration to support the design of open science monitoring systems. Aimed …
To fully take advantage of the adoption of the 2021 UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science, transparent and representative monitoring must be put in place to drive and support the intended change. It is also vital to identify effective actions and priority gaps. To compensate for the lack of global guidelines on open science monitoring, the …