EOSC brings together its forces within a federation
Another international collaboration, on a European scale this time: the program European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), which offers scientists from all disciplines a catalog of shared services for open science. Almost ten years after its launch by the European Commission in 2016, EOSC is now bringing together its forces within a new tangible and persistent environment: the EOSC federation. Volker Beckmann, responsible for implementing the EOSC in France, explains the genesis of this new approach: « Until now, the EOSC has operated on a project basis, with new calls to manage the core of the EOSC every three years, which limited its sustainability and sustainability. This mode of operation weakened the service offering. This federation bringing together providers of data and research services, whose support will be based on a solid economic model, provides momentum that matches the ambitions of European research. This does not prevent calls for projects to continue to develop EOSC but in a context of clarified and well-identified governance and operations. »
Announced this year, the EOSC federation has already received 121 proposals, including 17 in France. The CNRS is not left out with its wish to contribute to different nodes of the federation – that is to say composite structures articulated in several services offered to the scientific community – and to potentially coordinate three around Data Terra for the Earth system, Escape for astronomy and particle physics and HAL+ for open archives. Suzanne Dumouchel, CNRS coordinator on EOSC subjects, certifies that the research organization “ is widely involved at several levels in the construction of the EOSC federation » with support for the nodes but also by participating in the work of the EOSC association.
France at the top of the Leiden Ranking
In line with the European dynamic of open science, André Brasil, researcher at the Center for Science and Technology Studies at the University of Leiden, came to share the progress of the experimentation of his international ranking which now integrates the principles of open science. THE Leiden Ranking is the first ranking to exclusively use open data – notably via the OpenAlex database – and will coexist with the historical ranking, which is based on proprietary data, to compare the results. The availability and centralization of open data and metadata is a recent process that is gradually becoming organized on an international scale.
Six years after the launch of the first National Plan for Open Science, it is clear that France has a major international role in open science practices, as André Brasil underlines on the analysis of the preprints: “ If we look at the list of preprints in OpenAlex, France shows the way to other countries and the CNRS is nothing less than the number 1 institution in the world ».
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