The Library in the Information Ecosystem of Open Science

N S Redkina

doi:10.3103/s0147688221040043

Abstract

The results of an analysis of trends in the development of the information ecosystem of open science based on the study of the global document flow, open access resources, and scientific data repositories, as well as initiatives in the field of open science, including during the COVID-19 pandemic, are presented. The directions of activity of libraries in these conditions are determined.

Highlights

Initiatives supporting the development of open science, the availability of data for the entire scientific community, as well as the transparency and reproducibility of research results, are gaining increasing recognition in the world, leading to significant changes in the infrastructure of scientific communications, the principles and methods of conducting scientific work, the recording and promoting of their results, as well as suggesting new solutions to problems related to improving the quality, support, and dissemination of scientific research
Open science initiatives are promoted by various science foundations, national research councils, and government agencies (e.g., European Commission, Center for Open Science, FORCE11, and the Wellcome trust), as well as numerous university and national communities, major publishers and consortia; they have an impact on the formation of the ecosystem of science
UNESCO prepared a roadmap for the development of Recommendations [1], in which it is planned to establish standards aimed at forming a coherent vision of Open Science

Summary

INTRODUCTION

Initiatives supporting the development of open science, the availability of data for the entire scientific community, as well as the transparency and reproducibility of research results, are gaining increasing recognition in the world, leading to significant changes in the infrastructure of scientific communications, the principles and methods of conducting scientific work, the recording and promoting of their results, as well as suggesting new solutions to problems related to improving the quality, support, and dissemination of scientific research. According to analysts of The Wall Street Journal (2014 review “Good bye, Berlin”), open access did not harm large publishers; everyone needs it: librarians, to solve the problems of the journal crisis; scientists, to increase the level of citations and facilitate the dissemination of knowledge; economists, because it opens up access to new knowledge and technologies for small and medium-sized enterprises; political activists, as a way to reduce the superprofits of capitalists; and activists from developing countries, as a way to prepare doctoral dissertations in these countries [10] These factors determine the need for a comprehensive scientific analysis of the activities of various social institutions, in particular, libraries, traditionally aimed at supporting, presenting, and promoting the results of scientific research in a unified information ecosystem of knowledge

A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR THE ROLE OF THE SCIENTIFIC

CONCLUSIONS

Findings

Collaboration and community