Open Science policy of the University of Strasbourg

The open science movement aims to freely disseminate scientific research in order to make it accessible to all. Open science covers both the dissemination of research results (scientific publications) and research data.

In this context, the University of Strasbourg and its Alsatian partners* collaborate and offer services to researchers, such as the Alsatian open archive platform Univoak. At the national level, the plan for open science unveiled on July 4, 2018, has been evaluated and a second plan was made public on July 6, 2021.

*Université de Haute-Alsace, Institut national des sciences appliquées de Strasbourg, Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire, Ecole nationale du génie de l'eau et de l'environnement de Strasbourg, Haute Ecole des Arts du Rhin, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Strasbourg

• Visionnez la vidéo sur la science ouverte réalisée par l'Université de Strasbourg, grâce au financement du consortium Couperin.
• Consultez les portraits des personnels qui ont adopté des pratiques de science ouverte à l'Université de Strasbourg dans Savoirs, le quotidien de l'Université de Strasbourg
• De nombreuses interventions lors des manifestations de science ouverte sont disponibles en replay sur la chaîne Science ouverte de la plateforme de l'Université de Strasbourg POD. Que tous les intervenants soient ici remerciés d'avoir accepté le partage des enregistrements et le temps alloué pour livrer ces interventions.

In accordance with the commitment made by its Research Commission on 17 October 2018 and when signing the Jussieu Call for Open Science and Bibliodiversity, the University of Strasbourg promotes bibliodiversity and innovative models of scientific publication by financially supporting numerous initiatives and infrastructures. These initiatives must meet the following criteria:

• be national or international in scope
• be for the benefit of the scientific communities
  guarantee the scientific quality of the work published
• have a transparent and fair economic model;
• have established a governance system centred on the scientific communities.

Since 2018, the University of Strasbourg has funded or is funding the following infrastructures, organisations and initiatives:

• The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ): bibliographic reference database for open access electronic journals ;
• SPARC Europe: European foundation for the promotion of open science;
• EDP Sciences: publisher of science, technology and health journals, as part of the French Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation's support plan for scientific publishing;
• Erudit.org: a French-language platform of Social Science and Humanities (SSH) journals from North America;
• SCOAP3: international consortium led by CERN to finance the transition to open access for high-energy physics journals;
• OpenEdition Journals: French platform of Social Science and Humanities (SSH) journals;
• Knowledge Unlatched: an ebook release programme;
• Fair Open Access Alliance: international foundation that helps journals move from a subscription-based to an open access business model with no barriers for authors;
• Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR): an international organisation that networks open archives to ensure the technological quality of the infrastructure;
• Open Library of Humanities: a platform for publishing Social Science and Humanities (SSH) journals in open access at no cost to authors;
• Sci-Post: a platform for open access journal publishing in the physical sciences;
• Le Centre Mersenne: public infrastructure for open access publishing of scientific journals, books and seminar proceedings;
• Peer Community In: INRAE's initiative to offer a peer reviewing and recommendation service for scientific papers deposited on preprint servers or open archives;
• Open access digital textbook project in history: project coordinated by Couperin consortium (Couperin.org) in partnership with Nouveau Monde éditions