Over the last decade, there has been increasing talk about open science, which aims to make research data available to researchers and the wider public on a FAIR basis and to simplify its re-use.
The first handbook on open science, SPOZNAJ FAIR, has been produced as part of the SPOZNAJ project, which aims to introduce the principles of open science into scientific research and is co-funded by the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Innovation and the European Union - NextGenerationEU through the National Recovery and Resilience Plan.
The handbook raises fundamental questions related to the implementation of open science and illustrates existing solutions and opportunities for the development of the field of open science. It was developed in cooperation with representatives of various research organisations involved in the project "SPOZNAJ FAIR - Support for the implementation of open science principles in Slovenia".
According to the editor, Dr Sonja Bezjak, the aim of the handbook is to introduce the basic concepts of open science to various actors from a wide range of scientific disciplines in the Slovenian language, and to introduce them to the research infrastructure and services that serve open science in the Slovenian environment, while at the same time being inextricably linked to the European and wider international research space.
The Handbook is thus aimed at researchers at different stages of their scientific careers, research funders, research organisation management, libraries, data professionals in various roles, publication and data repositories, publishers and editors of scientific journals, citizen researchers and others working in the field of science or interested in scientific findings and the processes by which they are produced.
The aim is for them to identify opportunities to contribute to open science, to learn about their responsibilities and to find information on where they can find support or to whom they can offer support, and how they can do so. The authors hope that it will help readers to develop a culture of open sharing of the various scientific outputs funded by public money.
The Handbook is also available in digital format for all interested parties (link to the Handbook).
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