In the 21st century, the idea ofopen science is becoming a more and more widespread research model. Popularity and growing importance of openness at all stages of the research process and scientific communication has its advocates in the international institutions, the European Commission, the OECD and major research centers.
We observe more and more initiatives increasing awareness of these processes. In addition to the growing number of projects aimed at building specific technical solutions, Poland still lacks analyses that would properly show and diagnose the level of acceptance for these changes, as well as the popularity of the “open science ” approach to scientific work.
The planned research will focus on the diagnosis of attitudes, awareness and approach of the Polish academic sector to broadly defined open models in the science sector:
- Free software (open source code);
- open access
- massively distributed collaboration;
- Free scientific data;
- Open education and „citizen science”.
In particular, we want to address the question of the views of scientists on the principles, methods, benefits, implications and potential of introduction of scientific communication based on “open science” principles. We will analyze the scope and scale of implementation in the scientific and research work of open tools, techniques and methods: open notebook science, open peer review, free licensing, scientific networking etc.
Capturing the state of consciousness and the scale of use of open models will permit – in addition to its purely cognitive value- to assess the depth of embedding of the idea of openness in the Polish scientific reality, both on the declarative level (beliefs, attitudes) and in reality (implementation of open models). The analytical material collected on this basis will enable diagnosis of possible barriers, resistance and risks perceived as associated with these processes in the scientific community.
Project title:Analysis of attitudes of the academic and scientific community to various open science models.