Easy to digest: Monthly event series on Open Science
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Our new Lunch&Learn events offer an overview of various aspects of Open Science over lunch. The starting topic was the Open Science Policy of the UZH.
To offer a simple and straightforward insight into open science topics: That’s the idea behind the Open Science Services team’s new Lunch&Learn series. The monthly events take place over lunch from 12:30 to 13:30 online on Zoom. Each event starts with experts giving a half-hour input presentation in German or English, followed by an open Q&A session.
First event started with the UZH Open Science Policy
The Lunch&Learn series started on February 25 with Manuela Höfler and Katherine Hermans from the Open Science Office UZH. Under the title “UZH in the Open Science World: from Policy to Cultural Change” they informed about the background and the current status of the UZH Open Science Policy and the further procedure of the implementation plan. During their presentation, they showed that the majority of UZH researchers welcome an Open Science Policy and the measures described therein. However, these measures were initially perceived as too restrictive. For example, the researchers stated that their research area did not have any “good” open access journals or that the measures would endanger the careers of young researchers. The Open Science Office took this feedback into account and adapted the text of the policy accordingly: the measures are now formulated as recommendations instead of obligations.
The policy was then ratified in September 2021. Since then, Manuela Höfler and Katherine Hermans have been working on the implementation plan. This plan is intended to define measures and support more concretely so that researchers can succeed in the cultural change to “Open by Default”. The two have already held initial talks with the various faculties at the beginning of this year and clarified their needs. Being in its initial draft version, the implementation plan is hopefully going to be approved by the end of this year.
To round off their presentation, the two pointed to measures and support already in place, such as the services provided by the University Library and the Center for Reproducible Science. And as a first introduction to the topic, researchers can play themselves to a PhD in the Open Science Game.
Next event topics
The next event in the “Lunch & Learn Open Science” series took place on March 31. Anna Picco-Schwendener and Suzanna Marazza from the Competence Center Digitallaw informed about “Funder requirements and publishers’ conditions”. The audience learnt more about the role of publishers and the transfer of copyrights: Which rights remain with the author and what possibilities are there to negotiate this transfer with the publisher?
Other events in the first half of the year will include presentations by Rachel Heyard from the University of Zurich on Open and FAIR data (event in April), Karin Gilland Lutz and Mihaela Falub on the HI-FRAME pilot project (event in May), and Torsten Hothorn as SNSF Open Access Ambassador on Open Access (event in June).
Further information and registration for the individual events can be found at http://t.uzh.ch/lunch.
Melanie Röthlisberger, Team Open Science Services