Open Science in the open - perspectives on the governance and infrastructure landscape in Denmark

Københavns Universitetsbibliotek Open Science in the open? - perspectives on the governance and infrastructure landscape in Denmark Kira Stine Hansen Library Director / Deputy Director Michael Svendsen Head of Research Support Copenhagen University Library / Royal Danish Library Nov. 5, 2025 Agenda WHY -European outlook –Open Science and EU regulation -Danish perspective HOW -Culture -Policies -The Danish research infrastructure landscape -Case: Governance Challenges -Open Science in context of resilience, security and digital sovereignty Open Science succes exampels in DK november 2025 WHY? European outlook –Open Science and EU regulation Danish perspective november 2025 SRIA of the EOSC paving Open Science as "new normal" november 2025 Policy development in the EU funding programmes for R&I november 2025 Digital regulation development in the EU november 2025 Source: IAAP Organizational Digital Governance Report 2024 Complex legal compliance landscape november 2025 Source: Data Spaces Support Centre, https://www.law.kuleuven.be/ WHY? Ensure the full exploitation of societal investments in scientific projects, e.g. reuse of data (open data) and making scientific results available (open access) Ensure transparency and credibility through open access to research data and publications Increase value creation in relation to society, e.g. through innovative use of research results Increase citizen involvement and thereby create visibility, understanding and thereby acceptance of research results, among other things to avoid the emergence of 'alternative facts' Ensure accountability and reproducibility (compliance with the Code of Conduct) As open as possible, as "protected"/closed as necessary november 2025 HOW? Culture Policy The Danish research infrastructure landscape Case: Governance november 2025 Building resilience and digital sovereignty within research infrastructures november 2025 International community based initiatives, pointing towards need for non-for-profit infrastructures •SCOSS - Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services (2017) •(FrenchJussieu Call for Open Science & Bibliodiversity (2018) •CoARA –Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (2022) •POSI –Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (2023) •Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information (2024) Need for support + investment in sustainable non-for-profit infrastructures promoting Digital Soveriegnty og FAIR data. Tracking technologies in research –aggregation and misuse of usage data november 2025 DFG (2021): Datentracking in der Wissenschaft: Aggregation und Verwendung bzw. Verkauf von Nutzungsdaten durch Wissenschaftsverlage, doi: 10.5281/zenodo.5937995 •Focus and concern around AAI (authentification -and access identification) like e.g. RA21 or seamless access via commercial or big tech companies •Types of data mining - 3. part data through micro targeting - bid stream data/ port scanning - spyware (beyond proxy servers, VPN tunnels) •Goal of report awareness raising and broader debate in academia and to decision makers for infrastructure organisations around lock-in tecnologies Why resilience and digital sovereignty as drivers for change? november 2025 Business intelligence and lock-in to research workflows from dominating vendors Gatti, Rupert (2020): Business Models and Market Structure within the Scholarly Communications Sector, doi: 10.24948/2020.04 https://www.digital-science.com/audience/researchers/ Support & more focus on PID providers –in line w. Barcelona Declaration november 2025 Succes examples november 2025 Support & collab for non-for-profit infrastructures november 2025 Since 2020 RDL has supported non-for-profit initiatives & infrastructures: Infrastructures (2025): ArXiv, DOAB/Oapen, DOAJ, OAS (OA Switchboard), Open Citations (SCOSS), Open Editions, Open Policy Finder (SherpaRomeo), PCI (PeercommunityIn), PKP (Public Knowledge Project),Redalyc/AmeliCa (SCOSS) Member –and partnerships (2025): COAR (Confederation of Open Access Repositories), SCOAP3, SPARC Europe Royal Danish Library support for OS services: https://pro.kb.dk/en/open-science/support-open-science-services National Open Science and Cultural Heritage services at The Royal Danish Library november 2025 https://pro.kb.dk/en/open-science https://www.kb.dk/en/find-materials Flagship project: National Diamond Open Access Book platform november 2025 •Framework goal of RDL strategy 2024-2027 with funding from Ministry of Culture •Collaboration between Aarhus and Copenhagen University Libraries •Development og institutional service for a national open book publishing platform •Software application based on Open Monograph Press (OMP) from PKP, CA. •4 year project with IT-development from Digital Transformation (RDL) •Huge interest from other DK universities and vocational schools •Developing a participation and distributed cost model with partners https://openbooks.kb.dk/ Collab project UCPH/RDL/DeiC: National FAIR data repository november 2025 •Tender from DeiC (Danish e-Infrastructure Consortium), Aug. 2021 •EoI from UCPH with the Copenhagen University Library •UCPH announced as winner, Nov. 2021 – funding for 2 year project period + 3 year operation •1 year delay due to requirements in contractual law (Agency for Digital Government) •Signed, selaed, delivered, Mid Oct 2024, now w. 5 year oprational conctract (2025-2029) •Governance: Roles and responsibilities at local implementation level (KU) https://dataverse.deic.dk/ Open World Conference –Celebrating Bohr's vision of an open world november 2025 https://openworld.ku.dk/ The Black Diamond, Copenhagen, 19-21 Nov. 2025 Scientific Sessions The Legacy of Bohr’s Open Letter Legitimate Limits of Openness Today Data and Artificial Intelligence Nuclear Threat Being a Young, Hopeful, and OpenMinded Scientist Science and Openness