Open Science
Integral to our Research Process
In accordance with the mission statement of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the recommendations of the German Research Foundation, the Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity. Image Space Material« understands openness as an integral part of the research process and is convinced of the principle that there should be free and equal access for all people to the results of scientific work. Digitization offers science new opportunities in dealing with knowledge and information. In this context, the term Open Science bundles strategies and procedures that aim to make all components of the scientific process openly accessible and reusable.
One of the central challenges of Open Science is to enable the long-term use of scholarly methods and results in new contexts. This is intended to open up new opportunities for researchers, society and industry in dealing with academic findings. The Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity. Image Space Material« supports its members in opening up their research through additional financial means as well as personnel assistance within the management office and expressly advocates new ways of publishing and evaluating research results. This includes not only making text publications openly accessible directly or after an embargo period, but also making research data and software findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable in accordance with the FAIR principles.
The aim is, together with sponsors and collaboration partners, to make Open Science the standard of the international research community by showing ways of realizing Open Science and promoting the establishment of suitable political and operational framework conditions. Depending on the discipline, different challenges and subject-specific questions have to be considered and legal, technical and cultural framework conditions have to be clarified. New procedures for the exchange of publications, research data, program code and teaching materials are to be implemented not only within the scientific community, but also with a broad public.
For advice, please contact Elisabeth Obermeier and Alexander Struck.
Related Links
Open Access Declaration of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
DFG Guidelines on the Handling of Research Data
Recommendations on the Development, Use and Provision of Research Software