Making Research Assessment a Reality: Concrete Open Science Advancements in Latin America & Europe

Описание: LIBER and LA Referencia Webinar - Making Research Assessment a Reality: Showcasing Concrete Open Science Advancements in Latin America and Europe

On 13 May 2024 LIBER and LA Referencia co-organised a webinar aiming at providing a panel of concrete case studies, inspiring examples and useful contacts for building a framework fostering Open Science practices when evaluating research. The event aimed to introduce several methods and opportunities for aligning practices, fostering communities and partnerships at a global, regional, national and/or local level, and bringing together decision-makers, strategists, researchers and research communities, research staff support and librarians that are willing to join forces.

The webinar heard from a wide range of speakers from Latin America and global networks within the Research Assessment and Research Data ecosystems, that take Open Science practices into account.

Andrea Mora, LA Referencia President, and Giannis Tsakonas, LIBER Vice President, opened the session and welcomed the participants. As Ginanis Tsakonas stated : “The matter of research assessment is very critical for the progress of Open Science. Research assessment is dependent on many factors, including equity in visibility, academic freedom, and social contribution. To this end, we reckon that Research Libraries have a lot to offer to our LIBER members and have the capacity, knowledge and interest to promote alternative paradigms of research assessment that respect the particular conditions of disciplines and cultures. We explore the potential of open infrastructures that broaden the data and information that is considered in decision making, we help our institutions to shape policies that include diverse research practices, we challenge the use of traditional tools and metrics that neglect or oppress several types of research outputs, we develop services that work for the benefit of our researchers and of our societies. We are joining our forces and uniting our voice with our colleagues from around the globe and we commit to continue working with them to make Open Science the default paradigm”.

Three speakers presented various approaches of the research evaluation in an Open Science perspective :

https://coara.eu/ Eva Mendez
https://www.clacso.org/en/folec/ Laura Rovelli
https://www.rd-alliance.org/ Francoise Genova

The webinar was facilitated by Cécile Swiatek Cassafieres (LIBER), with concluding remarks by Claudia Cordova from https://www.gob.pe/concytec. Concytec is the National Council for Science, Technology and Technological Innovation in Peru, the governing body of SINACYT, responsible for directing, promoting, coordinating, supervising and evaluating the actions of the State throughout the country in the field of science, technology and technological innovation; it guides the actions of the private sector; and it executes support actions that promote scientific and technological development in the country. Her valuable voice invited participants and academic communities to take advantage of the organisations and networks presented during this webinar, adopt or take inspiration from their methods and outputs, in order to become involved in a process of research reflection aimed at a more impotent opening up of research results and their open dissemination.

View this webinar in Spanish.    • Webinar: Transformando la evaluación de la...  

Speakers slides: https://zenodo.org/records/11235054