Open access to scientific information – re-use research results, data, procedures, hypotheses, etc. (applies to scientific publications and research data).
A model of scientific communication that ensures permanent, immediate, accessible and free online access to the full texts of published scientific results (most often articles) without restriction for anyone.
Open Access to scientific publications includes:
This is free and unlimited online access to this information with the right to further use the content through the so-called public licenses.
The Open Access project condition can be met in two ways, it is possible to choose (according to the publishers' conditions):
Data sharing/publishing – an essential tool for accelerating and improving the research process. It brings new opportunities for profiling and active involvement of MUNI in European and international activities (e.g. European Open Science Cloud, EOSC, etc.).
Under pressure from grant providers, the need to store, share and publish research data is becoming increasingly relevant also within MUNI. Since 2014, it is a condition for selected areas of research of the EU Horizon 2020 program, since 2017, the obligation has been extended to all supported projects from this program. Similar requirements are already in place or being prepared by other international programming schemes (e.g. Horizon Europe). They also occur within the framework of the National R&D&I Policy 2021+ and subsequent interventions of support providers.
The abbreviation FAIR is formed from the initial letters of the four main principles of FAIR Data:
Making data available according to FAIR principles Data does not mean automatically making data available to anyone. The aim is to follow the principle "as open as possible, as closed as necessary".
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