Why?

Open Science is a new research paradigm facing many challenges, mainly the ingrained research habits accompanied by non-incentive institutional and funder reward systems, the lack of embedded tools and services, the connection to non-academic communities.

Who?

OSFair2019 is organized as an emblematic initiative of OpenAIRE, co-organized by 3 other EU projects in the area of Open Science: FIT4RRI, EOSC Secretariat and FAIRsFAIR. It is locally curated by the University of Minho.

What?

Open Science Fair will critically showcase the elements required for the transition to Open Science: e-infrastructures and services, policies as guidance for good practices, research flows and new types of activities (disseminate, mine, review, assess, etc.), the roles of the respective actors and their networks.

Conference topics

Infrastructures for Open Science: services, methods, networks
Open Access Platforms for all research artifacts
Next Generation of Repositories
Infrastructures for responsible metrics

European Open Science Cloud (EOSC)
FAIR data policy and practice: from theory to implementation
EOSC in national settings
Thematic Clouds

RRI and Open Science: bridging the gap
Citizen Science and Public and Societal Engagement

Training and skills for Open Science
Sustaining Open Science training: people and resources
FAIR competences for Higher Education

Policies & Evaluation
PlanS - principles, guidelines and implementation services
Responsible metrics and research assessment

Innovative publishing and research dissemination
Alternative publishing models
Open Peer Review
Innovation on science communication

Value added data products/services from Open Science
Research analytics and visualizations
Text and data mining for/from research

IMPORTANT DATES

REGISTRATION
Early Bird: 1 July, 2019
Deadline: 9 September, 2019

CALL FOR PROPOSALS
(Workshops, Posters & Demos)
Abstract submissions deadline: 17 May, 2019
Notification of acceptance / rejection: 3 June, 2019

Expected Outcome

The conference will include keynotes by distinguished speakers, roundtable discussions, hands-on workshops and training sessions, as well as a poster and a demo session. It will bring together different stakeholder perspectives and will suggest roadmaps towards implementation on targeted aspects of Open Science, scholarly communication in national settings and FAIR implementation.
Targeted audience

Policy makers and funders, researchers, research Infrastructures and research communities, repository managers, publishers and content providers, libraries, research administrators, service providers and innovators.

Keynote speakers

OSFair will host key scientists, policy makers and science stakeholders from around the world who will provide inspirational views on how open data and open science influences all aspects of life, policy makers who will tell us what lies ahead, infrastructure/service providers who will present their solutions, and innovators who will bring in their ideas and their notion of openness.

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