Technoculture-on-EuroScientist #9 Sabina Lonelli
Channel: Federica Bressan
Date: 27/05/2020

Sabina Leonelli is professor of philosophy and history of science at the university of Exeter in the UK, where she co-directs the center for the study of the life sciences. She is an expert of the #OpenScience movement, the topic of this interview for EuroScientist, recorded in Los Angeles, California, shortly before the COVID-19 pandemic broke out.

0:34 Sabina gives an overview of the progress the Open Science Movement has made since our last interview, over a year prior (late 2018). 

0:56 Recently, we have seen the most activity in Open Access publishing, especially due to the #PlanS. 

1:43 Sabina mentioned Wiley and Springer Nature, as examples of publishers that are responding to Plan S and setting up "transformative agreements" to transition from the current situation to a situation where everything is freely accessible to the readers.

2:45 Sabina talks about the FAIR Data Principles: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable. 

3:13 How is the Open Science movement changing research assessment? 

3:34 "Making your data available and FAIR, actually requires a lot of extra work."

4:00 Data managing is not a detail in your research, it affects the entire research design. 

4:28 In order to change research assessment, we need to change how research performing institutions and research funders shift the ways in which they think about research excellence.

4:43 Implementing Open Science requires that we abandon quantitative metrics (in research assessment.)

5:33 Ghent University in Belgium is mentioned as an example of an institution that has revised its guidelines for the advancement of the career of the professors by including Open Science criteria.

7:00 The #ESOF2020 conference is mentioned. This interview was recorded before the COVID-19 pandemic forced the organization to postpone the event to September 2020.

7:14 What is a platform where researchers can engage in a conversation about Open Science, keep up to date, and feel involved? Sabina mentions:
- Open Science on the website of the European Commission: https://ec.europa.eu/research/openscience/
- Open Science Monitor (tool of the European Commission): https://ec.europa.eu/info/research-and-innovation/strategy/goals-research-and-innovation-policy/open-science/open-science-monitor_en
- OpenAire: https://www.openaire.eu

8:20 Is the Open Science movement something that started in Europe?

9:23 Open Science is something that deserves political support.

9:35 Europe has played a leading role in promoting Open Science.

9:42 Recently the #UnitedNations have committed to Open Science by implementing it into its UN 2030 Agenda. 

10:03 Sabina talks about South America and how Open Science has had a very long history there, especially in terms of publishing.