Location
School of Law Seminar Room 3.09
Start Date
3-6-2026 4:30 PM
End Date
3-6-2026 5:00 PM
Description
Research information, or scholarly metadata, is important for decision making around strategic priorities, distribution of resources, and evaluation of researchers and institutions. It is also used to assess the effect of policies, and to find and assess research results. Open research information (free to access and free to (re)use) is increasingly valued for fair assessment and equitable decision making, and is also important in digital sovereignty.
The Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information calls on organizations performing, funding and evaluating research to make openness of research information the default, work with services and systems that support and enable open research information, support the sustainability of infrastructures for open research information, and work together to realize the transition from closed to open research information.
Publishers play an important role in this transition, as they are an important source of scholarly metadata - including bibliographic metadata for the research articles and other research outputs they publish. Many publishers make important metadata, including abstracts, authors and affiliations, references and funding information available via Crossref, including persistent identifiers (ORCID, ROR and funder and grant IDs). However, for many research articles, this metadata is still only available through closed, proprietary systems, if at all.
This presentation will discuss approaches to support publishers to make metadata for the articles and other outputs they publish openly available, for example: including open metadata in publisher negotiations, removing barriers in publisher workflows (from submission systems to metadata deposit) and supporting under-resourced publishers. The presentation will discuss criteria for success, potential challenges and context-specific considerations, and the work the Barcelona Declaration is doing to support these approaches.
Included in
Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Commons, Cataloging and Metadata Commons, Scholarly Publishing Commons
Open research information - How to support publishers to make metadata openly availble
School of Law Seminar Room 3.09
Research information, or scholarly metadata, is important for decision making around strategic priorities, distribution of resources, and evaluation of researchers and institutions. It is also used to assess the effect of policies, and to find and assess research results. Open research information (free to access and free to (re)use) is increasingly valued for fair assessment and equitable decision making, and is also important in digital sovereignty.
The Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information calls on organizations performing, funding and evaluating research to make openness of research information the default, work with services and systems that support and enable open research information, support the sustainability of infrastructures for open research information, and work together to realize the transition from closed to open research information.
Publishers play an important role in this transition, as they are an important source of scholarly metadata - including bibliographic metadata for the research articles and other research outputs they publish. Many publishers make important metadata, including abstracts, authors and affiliations, references and funding information available via Crossref, including persistent identifiers (ORCID, ROR and funder and grant IDs). However, for many research articles, this metadata is still only available through closed, proprietary systems, if at all.
This presentation will discuss approaches to support publishers to make metadata for the articles and other outputs they publish openly available, for example: including open metadata in publisher negotiations, removing barriers in publisher workflows (from submission systems to metadata deposit) and supporting under-resourced publishers. The presentation will discuss criteria for success, potential challenges and context-specific considerations, and the work the Barcelona Declaration is doing to support these approaches.