Open Science: A New Paradigm for the Research Lifecycle and the Role of Computing

Open Science is a new paradigm of doing research, promoting collaboration, transparency,
accountability, and reproducibility, aiming at more impactful outcomes for society. It requires an
entirely different way of scholarly communication, different research assessment criteria, significant
technological support, etc. Parts of the scientific community across all disciplines are pushing in the
direction of Open Science bottom-up, but governmental mandates are being established for certain
aspects of Open Science (especially, Open Access) around the world as well. In this non-technical
talk, I will first present the basic principles of Open Science and how it may impact the everyday
life of researchers in the style of publications and other aspects. Then, I will dive into some of the
main steps in the typical research lifecycle and give more details on the changes that need to occur
to serve the open science philosophy, including open access, open reviews, open infrastructures
(e.g., the long-term work in Europe on the OpenAIRE infrastructure), open research preregistration,
and others. I will conclude with how ACM approaches Open Science, in particular, Open Access,
and what the general role of computing is in supporting it, also touching upon the ACM 4.0
Initiative, which is under implementation currently and has Open Science as one of its dimensions.

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