Ciencia abierta y gestión del conocimiento

At CREAF, we envision a future where openness, collaboration, and integrity are the bedrock of scientific progress. We aspire for an open science mindset to become the standard in our research community.

The Open Science & Knowledge Management Unit is committed to supporting researchers and research managers to integrate responsible open science practices throughout the entire research lifecycle. The main objective of this Unit is to promote, implement, organise & co-coordinate practices that ensure CREAF’s scientific knowledge creation and management is transparent, reliable, diverse, accessible, collaborative and responsible.  

SERVICES

POLICIES

INFRASTRUCTURE

CULTURE AND COMMUNITY

FAQs

What is Open Science and the open science mindset?

Open Science is a comprehensive approach to research that aims to make it more trustworthy, scientifically relevant, and valuable to society. Open Science affects every part of the scientific process, from planning to sharing results and evaluating the impact of the work. The open science mindset is an individual’s attitude and commitment to Open Science principles in all their research activities.

What are the Open Science principles?

Open Science is built on:

Transparency: Making research processes and outputs openly available.
Accessibility: Removing barriers to scientific knowledge, particularly for publicly funded research.
Collaboration and reciprocity: Encouraging mutual support among researchers and institutions across disciplines.
Replicability and reproducibility: Enabling others to validate and build upon scientific work.
Ethics and integrity: Upholding high standards in research conduct and ethics.
Inclusivity: Embracing diverse perspectives to enrich scientific outcomes.

What are the current ambitions of Open Science?

Standard-setting international, European, national, and regional frameworks and enablers –such as UNESCO, the EU, or the Spanish and Catalan Open Science strategies, among others–, recognize these dimensions:

Open Access (OA) to publications: Ensuring research outputs are freely available online as early as possible.
FAIR research data management: Making data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable.
Open Science support structure: Providing platforms, guidelines, and services to facilitate open science practices.
Training and skills development: Educating research staff on open science tools and methodologies across the whole research lifecycle.
Incentives and assessment: Reforming evaluation systems to recognize and reward contributions to open science.
Research integrity, ethics, and reproducibility: Promoting transparency in methods, reporting, and facilitating independent verification.
Public access to knowledge: Enhancing communication between scientists and society to make scientific knowledge widely accessible.

Services

We provide tailored guidance, technical support, and resources to make open science practices accessible and manageable for all members of our research community.

Can I publish in open access without paying APCs? What’s the use of a data management plan? How can I retain IP rights while sharing my knowledge? How does the UAB’s ethics committee work?

Técnica en Gestión del Conocimiento y Ciencia Abierta

Florencia Florido

Ex traductora de inglés, graduada en Conservación y Restauración de Bienes Arqueológicos por la ESCRBCC, máster en Diagnóstico del Estado de Conservación del Patrimonio Histórico por la UPO y máster

Policies

We develop organizational frameworks and protocols that establish a common ground for implementing open science practices.

Go to our Documentation and Resources page to check our CREAF Open Science Policy and other institutional frameworks that embed open science principles, such as the IPR policy and the CoARA Action Plan.

Go to documentation and resources

Look at our transparency section!

Infrastructure

We facilitate the technological framework and resources that enable the implementation of open science practices, such as repositories and data management tools.

Research showroom

Repositories

Tools

Culture and community

We cultivate a community of open science advocates and practitioners through training, awareness-raising initiatives, and engagement activities to develop a collective open science mindset. In this sense, the Open Science & Knowledge Management Unit constantly collaborates with internal research management offices and external stakeholders.