OpenScienceStandards

OpenScienceStandards is an international framework harmonizing guidelines for open science, spanning data sharing, open access, reproducibility, and transparent methods. It seeks to enable reuse of research outputs while safeguarding privacy and intellectual property.

The standards cover data management, licensing, interoperability, and reproducible workflows. They promote machine-readable metadata, persistent identifiers, and standardized formats; emphasize permissive licenses, data citations, ORCID, DOIs; encourage preregistration and registered reports; support open source software and open notebooks.

Governance is typically conducted by an international consortium with scientists, funders, librarians, and publishers. It uses consensus-based processes, with working groups developing baseline requirements and domain-specific extensions. Adoption is encouraged through funder policies, institutional requirements, and journal mandates.

Adoption yields benefits such as improved reproducibility, increased discovery, and greater international collaboration. However challenges remain, including resource demands for data curation, privacy and ethical constraints, licensing ambiguities, and disparities in infrastructure across regions.

See also Open Science, FAIR, data availability, reproducibility, open data, open source software.