Strategy and Policies on OS at IBEC

• IBEC mission and vision, includes values related to OS:
  • Responsibility (Scientific and social): Responsibility is a commitment to the profession and thus acting according to principles of good faith, integrity, honesty, and transparent communication, […].
  • Openness: Externally, openness means explaining, making things understood, and establishing a trusting relationship with partners, employees, and society, acting openly and accurately in the delivery and communication of both scientific and non-scientific results. Internally, openness ensures the consistency and consequence of our own decisions, identifying a frame of reference that enables understanding.

• Code of Conduct for Research Integrity,  among others, it sets criteria on: Publications and scientific Communications (Obligation to scientific communication, Open access) and Data management.

• Open Science policy: The Open Science policy establishes the way how IBEC will manage its practices, enabling new working models and new social relationships, stimulating the dissemination of knowledge and the accessibility and re-usability of research outputs, encouraging open access to publications and data, and building the necessary infrastructure, skills, rewards and incentives to support open science.

• Research data management policy: General framework for the management of the research data produced by IBEC. The policy intends to reaffirm the institution’s commitment with open science, specifically in making its research data as open as possible and as closed as necessary, following FAIR principles to make it findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable for the whole community.

• Charter and Code (human resources strategy): In April 2015 IBEC was awarded the “HR Excellence in Research” award from the European Commission. The Action Plan 2021-2024 of The Human Resources Strategy for Researchers (HRS4R) includes the action Ethics: Open Science.

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At the end of March 2023, IBEC signed the Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) which has 18 points, with the first one as a general recommendation:

Do not use journal-based metrics, such as Journal Impact Factors, as a surrogate measure of the quality of individual research articles, to assess an individual scientist’s contributions, or in hiring, promotion, or funding decisions.

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IBEC entered April 2023 the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA), promoted by the European Commission, and is fully involved to participate in and implement it’s achievements.