Open Science for Human Subject Research

Open Science is a movement for greater transparency and openness in science, which is increasingly having an impact on everyday scientific work and life in all disciplines. Following the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science published in 2021, open science is an umbrella term that “…combines various movements and practices aiming to  make  multilingual  scientific  knowledge  openly  available,  accessible  and  reusable  for  everyone,  to  increase  scientific  collaborations  and  sharing  of  information for the benefits of science and society, and to open the processes of scientific knowledge creation, evaluation and communication to societal actors beyond the traditional scientific community."

Open science activities are not limited to providing open scientific knowledge (e.g. through open access, open data, open source, open methodology, open educational resources, etc.) using open science infrastructures, but in addition emphasize accelerating an open dialogue and open engagement with societal actors (e.g. through citizen and participatory science, inclusion of marginalized scholars, etc.)

The Open Science Portal is a central hub that provides comprehensive information about open-science-based research with human subjects. The Portal is developed as part of the Future Field III project.