Open Science No Text. By:Greg Emmerich.CC BY-SA 3.0
As theUnited Nations Climate Change Conference, officially known as the 26th Conference of Parties, orCOP26, continues in Glasgow, Scotland, I’m pleased to share some good news. TheOpen Society Foundationsapproved funding for Creative Commons,SPARCandEIFL领导一项促进气候和生物多样性研究开放获取的全球运动。This is a promising new strategy to encouragegovernments, foundations, institutes, universities and environmental organizationsto use “open” to accelerate progress towards solving the climate crisis and to preserve global biodiversity. Catherine Stihler, CC’s CEO and a native of Scotland, publicly announced the campaign during her keynote at the University of St Andrews’Power to the peopleevent and will have the opportunity to announce the campaign at a COP26 fringe event –Open UK: Open Technology for Sustainability– on 11 November. CC is particularly happy to have the opportunity to work closely with our longtime allies in the open access movement to ensure that this effort is truly a global campaign, and hope that this initiative will help to provide a blueprint for future funding of similar collaborative campaigns.
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Climate change, and the resulting harm to our global biodiversity, is one of the world’s most pressing challenges. The complexity of the climate crisis requires collaborative global interventions that center on equity and evidence-based mitigation practices informed by multidisciplinary research. Many researchers, governments, and global environmental organizations recognize the importance of the open sharing of research to accelerate progress, but lack cohesive strategies and mechanisms to facilitate effective knowledge sharing and collaboration across disciplinary and geographic borders.
在2019冠状病毒病危机期间，开放获取的力量在促进知识共享民主化、加速发现、促进研究合作以及汇集全球利益攸关方的努力以应对大流行方面占据了中心地位。科学家们乐于立即、公开地分享预印本、研究文章、数据和代码。这种开放的态度促进了病毒基因组的快速测序和共享，促进了治疗方法的快速发展，促进了人类历史上最快的有效疫苗的开发。在大流行病期间取得的经验教训可以而且应该用于加速解决社会面临的其他紧迫问题。
The goal of this project is to create a truly global campaign to promote open access, open science and open data as effective enabling strategies to accelerate progress towards solving the climate crisis and preserving global biodiversity.It will develop effective messaging, strategies, and tactics to empower stakeholders currently leading critical climate and biodiversity work to embed open practices and policies in their operations, and make open sharing of research the default.
We expect to identify the most important climate and biodiversity research publications not already OA and coordinate a campaign to open those publications, remove legal and policy barriers to applying open licenses to research articles, influence key funders (governments, foundations, and institutes) of climate science and biodiversity research to adopt and implement strong OA policies, and identify opportunities to open climate and biodiversity educational resources因此，学生、教师和公民可以了解这些全球性挑战，并帮助制定解决方案。
We will encourage global environment organizations to adopt open licensing policies to ensure all their content is free to be reused, built upon and shared for the global public good, delivering on their SDG commitments. We will engage with researchers, universities and policy makers in the Global South to ensure inclusive outcomes throughout.
随着活动的进展，我们将分享更多的消息。
