Early career researchers show great interest in EKT’s seminar on Open Science and management of research data

Open Science and the Management of Research Data was the topic of the seminar organised by the National Documentation Centre (EKT), as National Open Access Desk (NOAD) for the OpenAIRE Open Access project (OpenAIRE NOAD), in co-operation with the European project FOSTER, on Tuesday 5 June 2018, for early career researchers in the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH).

The seminar confirmed the Greek research community’s interest and particularly that of early career researchers in Open Science/Open Access, as well as its willingness to adopt Open Access in research activities. It also highlighted the importance of organising similar events which inform, create awareness and offer training. In this context, the interest of participants to communicate with authorities and institution libraries with a view to organising respective activities can be seen as a positive step in the promotion of Open Science.

The introduction to the first part of the seminar covered the concepts of Open Access, Open Science and research data.  In addition, Nancy Pontika (FOSTER) presented the obligations of researchers under horizon 2020 to provide open access to publications and data, as well as the importance of using the database FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Re-usable data). Emphasis was also placed on licences, particularly Creative Commons and its various forms. The presentation ended with the potential benefits of Open Science/ Open Access for researchers.

Iryna Kuchma (FOSTER) reviewed actions and available material which FOSTER has developed to support and train/educate the researcher in applying Open Science. She focused not only on issues such as data protection, ethics and anonymisation, but also the tools capable of dealing with them. The first session was brought to a close by Ellie Papadopoulou (OpenAIRE), who paid special attention to the national nodes network and ways to support the research community through a variety of activities and services offered.

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