Conveners
Session 1: Open science in non-competitive research for a common good
- Andrew Goetz (ESRF)
Description
Open science in non-competitive research for a common good
Aims: A leader in Open Science, for data depositor and re-user, is the Protein Data Bank founded in 1971 in which it was deemed that no one can have IP and patenting for example would be inappropriate. They have received public funding in a continuous manner throughout. Another well-known example from another community is the human genome where the public project shared its data immediately open.
Here the talks set the scene in various ways. The first talk by Kelly Cobey, winner of the Maddox Prize 2024, is on adopting Open Science at the Ottawa Heart Institute and reforming research assessment. The second talk by Kruna Vukmirovic is on the work by the IUCr as a leader in “open as possible”, over many decades eg starting with its Teaching Pamphlets and more recently its open dictionary and its open journal titles. The third is from the founding crystallographic database, the CSD, in Cambridge who have provided FAIR data for 60 years. Initially open but thanks to Mrs Thatcher who argued “if useful people will pay” they were sustained by subscriptions and are a charity and a not for profit.
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Andy Götz (ESRF)8/11/26, 8:20 AM
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Amanda Rande (University of Calgary)8/11/26, 8:30 AM
When thinking about implementing open science into your research practice, it can feel overwhelming. It is not only a practical and procedural shift of how science is conducted, but also a cultural change with broad and lasting impacts. Taking a panoramic view of open science, we see that the core principles are transparency, reproducibility, and collaboration, and these principles are what...
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Kruna Vukmirovic (IUCr)8/11/26, 9:00 AM
This contribution will outline how Open Science is currently implemented across IUCr journals, using the Union’s journals' portfolio to examine practice at the intersection of publications, data and methods. We will focus on how the journals' strategy advances four key pillars: open access to research outputs, routine inclusion of FAIR data and metadata, openness in methods and software, and...
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Dr Suzanna Ward (CCDC)8/11/26, 9:30 AM
For 60 years, the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD)[1] has shown how a community can build and maintain a resource that is both accessible and genuinely usable. Long before the FAIR Data Principles were first formulated, the original vision for the CSD helped ensure that structural data is findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable. Today the database contains more than 1.4 million...
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