OpenAIRE at The Future of Open Research: Reliable, Responsible, Equitable in Munich 🙌
Key discussions focused on a growing shift in research evaluation:
➡️ universities moving away from global rankings
➡️ towards more open, transparent, and equitable approaches
Work from #EOSCTrack also highlighted a key point:
open research needs open and transparent monitoring.
Science Europe's latest position statement on Connecting Open Science and Research Assessment Reform recognises #OSMI as one of the key frameworks for comparing #openscience progress across institutional, national, and international levels. 🙌
#opensciencemonitoring matters – and we're glad the call is getting louder. 📊
👉 Read the full report here: https://www.scienceeurope.org/our-resources/position-statement-os-ra/
🗓 Six months since the Principles of Open Science Monitoring were published — and they're already shaping practice.
🎉 We’re delighted to share the first round of institutional testimonials showing the adoption and usage of the Principles. Read more here: https://open-science-monitoring.org/applying-the-principles-of-open-science-monitoring-first-testimonials/
✉️ Want to share your experience with the Principles? We’d love to hear from you! Drop us a comment below or an email.
Since their release in July 2025, the Principles of Open Science Monitoring have begun to gain traction internationally. Welcomed by numerous organisations, they are increasingly referenced by stakeholders across the world (find out more). To mark the sixth month since the publication of the Principles, the OSMI Coordination Committee launched a survey to gather opinions ...
🚀 OSMI’s first Steering Board meeting wrapped up on 18 March 2026! Key takeaways:
✅ Nominations:
- @fresseng as Steering Board Chair
- @BraccoLaetitia as Coordination Committee Chair
✅ Progress:
- OSMI Principles survey results coming soon!
- Working groups shared updates & challenges
✅ Next steps:
The Board engaged in breakout sessions to refine OSMI’s high-level vision, with outcomes to be presented in the next meeting.
Exciting times ahead for OSMI! 🎉 #OSMI #opensciencemonitoring
🚀 OSMI’s working groups are advancing open science monitoring!
- WG1 highlights equity-sensitive needs beyond Open Access;
- WG2 mapped 70+ global initiatives and seeks feedback;
- WG3 surveyed scholarly content providers, revealing motivations and upcoming indicator frameworks;
- WG4 focuses on open-source tools and resource sharing.
📖 Reports provide key insights for researchers, policymakers, and advocates.
How do we build stronger Open Science monitoring?
IReL and OpenAIRE have announced the completion of a comprehensive assessment of Ireland’s National Open Access Monitor using the #OSMI Principles, highlighting its strengths in openness, accountability, and community value.
🔗Read more: https://zenodo.org/records/18888565
#OpenAIRE #OpenScience #Ireland #OpenAccess #ResearchMonitoring
This document is an infographic designed to introduce and explain the Principles of Open Science Monitoring to a broad audience. It serves as a visual guide for anyone interested in understanding or applying these principles, whether for planning, policy-making, or research practices. The infographic emphasizes key aspects such as relevance, transparency, reproducibility, and responsible use of open science monitoring systems. Update 2026-03-06: Arabic, French and Spanish versions added
OpenAIRE is actively contributing to the Open Science Monitoring Initiative (OSMI), supporting the mapping of existing monitoring initiatives to improve transparency and comparability.
Great to see our own Tereza Szybisty (Šímová) co-chairing the working group on understanding the Open Science monitoring landscape, together with Lamis Yahia Mohamed Elkheir.
More about OSMI:
https://open-science-monitoring.org/about/steering-board/
The Steering board sets the main guidelines and strategy for the initiative, oversees the work of the Coordination Committee, and decides on the creation or closure of working groups. Members January 2026 / January 2028: Representatives of institutions committed to supporting OSMI and investing financial and/or human resources to the Coordination Committee. 6 Board members ...
☑️ The Principles were translated into 6 languages.
➡️ You can read them in Arabic, English, Finnish, French, German, Indonesian, and Spanish: https://lnkd.in/e3zAua-f
Translations into Japanese, Italian, Portuguese, Bengali and Slovenian are also underway.
☑️ OSMI appointed the first Steering Board, which will take up its duties in 2026.
We look forward to advancing open science monitoring worldwide further in the year ahead!
#OSMI #MonitoringFramework #OpenScience #OpenScienceMonitoring
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How do you use the Principles of Open Science Monitoring or plan to apply them in your work?
OSMI will showcase results of this short survey early next year.
Tell us before 31 December 2025 your plans to work with the Principles: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeXFYblKaguJBOc27ls6bv3QAFc8kJY0tfTYCaOXKKV4dwRFw/viewform?usp=header
OSMI’s WG3 will use insights from the survey to:
✅ document benefits of open science monitoring
✅ offer practical implementation guidance
✅ develop recommendations for indicators to adopt
More info: https://open-science-monitoring.org/monitoring-open-science-by-scholarly-content-providers-2025-osmi-survey-findings/
Extended post: https://upstream.force11.org/monitoring-open-science-survey/
#OSMI #OpenScience #OpenScienceMonitoring
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Open science is gaining momentum, and monitoring its adoption – across research activities and scholarly communications – is essential for its continued progress. To support OSMI’s work on open science monitoring, the OSMI Working Group 3 (WG3) ran a survey of scholarly content providers (publishers and journals, repositories and archives, and platform operators) seeking to ...
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