Open science and research evaluation - Issues and prospects

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Sharing scientific advances-publications, data, software, protocols, etc.-favors wider and faster dissemination of discoveries. By subjecting results and data to critical discussion by a wider public, this sharing reinforces the rigor and ethics of research. As a result, the scientific community largely embraces the principle of open science.

However, a major obstacle to its development lies in evaluation practices. Researchers, concerned about the national and international recognition of their work, are questioning the criteria that govern their evaluation, particularly in terms of recruitment, promotion and funding of research projects. What are the new rules adopted by universities, research organizations and national and European funding agencies?

This session will address these questions by explaining how the rise of open science has transformed scientific publishing. The traditional model based on subscriptions to scientific journals (pay to read) has given way to a system where researchers have to pay to publish in open access (pay to publish). Despite legislative advances, such as the Law for a Digital Republic, allowing deposit in open archives, these developments raise new economic and strategic challenges.

We will also examine the repercussions of transforming agreements, which allow institutions - by means of consortia such as Couperin in France - to negotiate both access to paying journals and the assumption of open access publication costs.

Finally, the essential question of evaluation will be at the heart of the debates. A representative of the European Research Council (ERC) will shed light on the evaluation criteria adopted at European level, while at national level, the practices implemented by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) will be detailed.

Organized by Patrick Couvreur, member of the Académie des sciences

Interventions:

The different economic models of open science

Karim RAMDANI, DR INRIA - Université de Lorraine

Assessment of research proposals

Maria LEPTIN, President of ERC Scientific Council - Brussels, Belgium

How to negotiate the best transformative agreements with major publishers?

Michel DENEKEN, President of Couperin and President of the University of Strasbourg

Disciplinary and interdisciplinary evaluation: progress and challenges for CNRS today

Martina KNOOP, DR CNRS - Marseille

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