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Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information

August 21, 2026 by
Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information
learnOPENtech, LLC, Beck

To wrap your head around the "Open Source Mindset," you need Open Standards. To have Open Standards, you need Open Research, and that is just what they are doing Barcelona!

"Vast amounts of information are being used to manage the research enterprise, from information about research actors and their activities to information about inputs and outputs in the research process and signals of the use, esteem, and societal impact of research. This information often plays a vital role in the distribution of resources and the evaluation of researchers and institutions. Research performing and research funding organizations use this information to set strategic priorities. The information is also indispensable for researchers and societal stakeholders to find and assess relevant research outputs.

However, a large share of all research information is locked inside proprietary infrastructures. It is managed by companies that are accountable primarily to their shareholders, not to the research community. As research community, we have become strongly reliant on closed infrastructures. We have ended up assessing researchers and institutions based on non-transparent evidence. We are monitoring and incentivizing open science using closed data. We are also routinely making decisions based on information that is biased against less privileged languages, geographical regions, and research agendas. To advance responsible research assessment and open science and to promote unbiased high-quality decision making, there is an urgent need to make research information openly available through open scholarly infrastructures. Openness of research information must be the new norm."

Read more at: https://barcelona-declaration.org/preamble/

Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information
learnOPENtech, LLC, Beck August 21, 2026
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