Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information
Overview
Research is increasingly evaluated using closed, proprietary information systems (such as Web of Science and Scopus), which lock away the metadata about how research is conducted and communicated. The Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information, published in April 2024, commits its signatories to make this research information open by default: bibliographic and citation metadata, information on funded projects and grants, and metadata about research data and software. It is the research-information counterpart to the DORA and CoARA assessment reforms, targeting the closed bibliometric systems those reforms seek alternatives to. A community-led initiative, it was signed by research funders (NWO, ANR, CSIC), university associations, and infrastructure organisations including the EOSC Association.
Connections
- relatedTo: DORA (both reform the research-evaluation system; Barcelona addresses the research-information layer that assessment relies on, DORA the assessment criteria)
- relatedTo: CoARA (complementary instruments in the European-led research-assessment-reform movement, with overlapping signatories)
- endorsedBy: EOSC (the EOSC Association is a signatory of the Declaration)