OS | Italian National Plan for Open Science 2021-2027

1. SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS
Objectives e recommendations

» To provide immediate open access to publicly funded scientific publications
» To encourage the use of non-commercial forms of open access publications » To provide Italy with an organic regulatory framework on copyright enabling open access to scientific publications
» To establish an Italian monitoring system on the implementation of the open access principles to scientific publications
» To rationalise, and give public evidence to subscriptions and contracts with scientific journals by public academies and research institutions
» To promote and encourage the creation of Open Educational Resources

RECOMMENDATIONS
» TO INCLUDE IN ALL PUBLICLY FUNDED RESEARCH CALLS THE OBLIGATION OF OPEN ACCESS FOR THE PRODUCTED ARTICLES AND MONOGRAPHS AND TO ESTIMATE THE COSTS AND SPECIFIC CONTROL MECHANISM
» TO PROMOTE THE INTERCONNECTION OF EXISTING OPEN ARCHIVES AND THEIR INTEROPERABILITY AT NATIONAL AND EUROPEAN LEVEL
» TO FOSTER THE DEVELOPMENT OF A NATIONAL RESEARCH DATA INFRASTRUCTURE IMPLEMENTING THE OPEN SCIENCE GUIDELINES
» TO ADOPT OPEN ACCESS POLICIES THAT PROMOTE GREEN DEPOSITS AND WARRANT REUSE RIGHTS AS WELL AS FREE ACCESS
» TO ACTIVELY PURSUE THE GOALS OF OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING, FAVOURING THE green DEPOSIT METHOD
»TO ENCOURAGE RESEARCHERS TO THE FULL USE OF ORCID-ID, AND ITS FUNCTIONALITIES FOR ENABLING AND CONNECTING SERVICES, LINKING ALSO TO CITATIONS
» TO Monitor THE costS OF OPEN ACCESS PUBLICATIONS, IN particUlar THE Article Processing Charges (APCS)
» TO SUPPORT SUSTAINABLE PUBLICATION INITIATIVES LED BY SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITIES THAT GUARANTEE QUALITY AND OPEN CITATION INITIATIVES

2. SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH DATA
Objectives e recommendations

» To contribute to the fulfilment of the FAIR data paradigm in the Italian research system, inherent to its integration in EOSC
» To invest in the creation of the new FAIR-by-design data tools with the automatic generation, where possible, of the metadata and of the appropriate contextual information that enables its search and reuse
» To encourage collaborative production processes of data and other research results by offering open environments and services for their production, management, and use
» To start the training of technical staff to support the management of research data

RESPONSIBILITY OF MUR
» TO INSERT THE OBLIGATION TO GENERATE FAIR DATASET TO BE STORED IN CERTIFIED OPEN ARCHIVES, IN ALL PUBLICLY FUNDED RESEARCH CALLS
» TO CREATE UNIVERSITY TRAINING COURSES FOR “data scientist” AND “data steward”
» TO SUPPORT INVESTMENTS FOR FAIR-by-design
» TO ADOPT AN ARCHIVE OF REFERENCE DATA AND DATA MANAGEMENT POLICIES
» TO INITIATE BASIC TRAINING FOR ALL RESEARCHERS AND TECHNOLOGISTS ON FAIR DATA MANAGEMENT
» TO EXPAND LITERACY IN THE USE OF RESEARCH DATA TO ALL TRAINING CURRICULA
» TO INVEST IN SUPPORT SERVICES FOR THE LEGAL ASPECTS OF DATA MANAGEMENT
» TO INVEST IN DATA PROTECTION TECHNIQUES APPLICABLE TO LONG-TERM STORAGE

3. RESEARCH EVALUATION
Objectives e recommendations

» To make the evaluation processes and the data they are based on, more transparent
» To make the evaluation criteria more reliable and robust, by including all the validated research results and by reducing the influence of bibliometric indicators referring to the publishing companies
» To implement evaluation criteria that encourage collaboration among institutions and researchers
» To publish in open access those research results that are subject to evaluation activity (e. g. VQR)
» To apply forms of open peer review to all national assessment activities (e. g. VQR)
» To develop systems that guarantee the public availability of citation data from scientific literature
» To provide Italy with a national distributed infrastructure that forms the basis of the Research Registry (ANPREPS)

RECOMMENDATIONS
» TO ENLARGE THE EVALUATION CRITERIA BY REDUCING THE WEIGHT OF BIBLIOMETRIC INDICATORS REFERRING TO THE PUBLISHING COMPANIES (impact factor, H-index) AND BY APPROPRIATELY EVALUATING CONTRIBUTIONS TO OPEN SCIENCE AND THIRD MISSION ACTIVITIES
» TO DEVELOP, WITH THE INVOLVEMENT OF SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITIES, NEW CRITERIA FOR ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF SCIENTIFIC RESULTS
» TO ESTABLISH A NATIONAL RESEARCH REGISTRY
» TO ADHERE TO THE PRINCIPLES OF THE DORA DECLARATION, BY ALIGNING EVALUATION METHODS
» TO ADAPT THE RESEARCH EVALUATION CRITERIA BY INSERTING THE PRODUCTION AND PROTECTION OF FAIR DATA AND THEIR SERVICES AMONG THE PRODUCTS TO BE EVALUATED
» TO ACKNOWLEDGe AND REWARD OPEN SCIENCE GOOD PRACTICES AS EVALUATION CRITERIA OF THIRD MISSION

4. OPEN SCIENCE
Objectives e recommendations

» To promote open science activities
» To coordinate and create synergies among the actors involved in defining a coherent process towards open science
» To monitor at a national level the increase in open science activities
» To encourage and streghten the Italian participation in the EOSC
» To participate in coordination activities at European level

RECOMMENDATIONS
» TO SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT OF A NATIONAL OPEN SCIENCE MONITOR TO AGGREGATE DATA FROM INDIVIDUAL INSTITUTIONS AND TRACK PROGRESS IN THE VARIOUS SECTORS OF OPEN SCIENCE
» TO PERFORM COMMUNICATION ACTIVITIES ON OPEN SCIENCE TOPICS, INITIATIVES AND NEW STANDARDS BEING DEFINED AT EUROPEAN LEVEL
» TO PROMOTE THE ALIGNMENT OF OPEN SCIENCE RULES AND SERVICES ADOPTING INTERNATIONAL AND eosc STANDARDS
» TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE TRAINING OFYOUNG PEOPLE ON THE LOGIC AND METHODS OF OPEN SCIENCE AND ON THE TOOLS TO USE AND PRACTise it
» to support initiatives for data literacy and open science in general for all the concerned actors

5. OPENING OF RESEARCH DATA ONSARS-COV-2 AND COVID-19
Objectives

» To create a national portal for FAIR data and texts on COVID19, interoperable with European initiatives
» To explore innovative open data models on public health, to enhance research and provide a transparent and accessible basis of reference