En février 2020, le gouvernement du Canada a publié la Feuille de route pour la science ouverte, un ensemble de principes et de recommandations pour guider la recherche scientifique fédérale au Canada.
On May 6 and 7, 2019, the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL–ABRC) hosted Advancing Open, an unconference-style gathering for Canadian scholarly communication practitioners to discuss ways to advance open scholarship in Canada.
Les 6 et 7 mai 2019, l’Association canadienne des bibliothèques de recherche (ABRC–CARL) a organisé Advancing Open, un atelier de style non-conférence pour les praticiens canadiens de la communication savante afin de discuter des moyens de faire progresser la science ouvertes au Canada.
Dans un article pour The Scholarly Kitchen en juin 2020, Alice Meadows soutient que maintenant, alors que la pandémie COVID-19 a conduit à des niveaux sans précédent d’ouverture et de collaboration entre les chercheurs du monde entier, la construction d’une infrastructure de recherche solide et stable est plus importante que jamais (Meadows 2020; voir aussi « Science Ouverte et COVID-19 »).
In a post for The Scholarly Kitchen in June 2020, Alice Meadows argues that now, as the COVID-19 pandemic has led to unprecedented levels of openness and collaboration among researchers around the world, building a strong and stable research infrastructure is more important than ever. Meadows announces that, as part of its efforts to support and expand open access (OA) in the UK, Jisc is working to establish a UK Persistent Identifier (PID) Consortium.
At the UNESCO General Conference in fall 2019, the organization was tasked with developing a Recommendation on Open Science. UNESCO describes open science as comprising open access, open data, and being “open to society” (UNESCO n.d. p. 2). It notes, however, that although the Open Science movement is gaining worldwide momentum, there is to date no consensus about how to define open science or its goals.