Openness is an essential part of science. Open publishing of research results and data improves the visibility and impact of your research. References to publications and research data are a part of the researcher’s academic merits. Opening and communicating about the research process and methods also increases the visibility of the research. Visibility enables new possibilities for co-operation between researchers.
Open science is an umbrella term for a movement aiming to promote open models in science and research. Open science has emerged as an internationally significant way of promoting science and research and their impact in society. Read more: avointiede.fi/en.
Citizen science is scientific research that is conducted partly or entirely by citizen scientists who are outside the scientific community. Citizen scientists can advance research in multiple ways. For example, they can collect, classify or analyze data needed for a study. In responsible citizen science, it is important that the people are not the subjects of the research but authors of it. You do not need to be a trained scientist to participate in research. Citizen science can also be referred to as community science, crowd-sourced science or volunteer monitoring.
Openness has always been part of responsible research. However, the definition of openness has changed in recent years. New digital tools and society's expectations have created opportunities but also pressure on the research community to increase the transparency of research and change the ways in which research is carried out, researchers are rewarded and results are disseminated as well as how the community takes part in social debate.
Promoting the culture of open scholarship can mean, for example, valuing and enabling the work done for open science and research.
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