Centre for Science and Technology Studies

At the National Open Science Festival, we explored challenges in implementing the Barcelona Declaration, including vendor lock-in, data quality, cultural resistance and advocacy gaps. Participants brainstormed actionable solutions, highlighting collaboration, training and outreach as key drivers.

Research will likely become ever more AI-assisted, but what does this mean for academia? In this blog post, our guest authors engage in blue-sky thinking to sketch some thought-provoking future scenarios and discuss potential implications for scholarly communication and research evaluation.

The development of Open Science (OS) is raising difficult questions about its implications for equity and inclusion. In this blog post, we report the insights gained from four sessions at the EASST/4S conference in July 2024, particularly in relation to OS monitoring.

Dutch knowledge institutions are taking steps to recognise and reward open science.

MetaROR, a new open peer review platform, was launched today at the AIMOS 2024 conference in Canberra, Australia.

Last week, the EARLI SIG 24 Workshop 2024 took place from 25 to 27 September at the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) in Leiden, the Netherlands.