PROGRAM: 4-2

Title:

OPEN SCIENCE AND OPEN DATA IN S. KOREA: RESEARCHER’S PERSPECTIVE

Abstract:

In the age of digitalization, “open science” becomes new phenomena in which scientists open up their research process as well as research outputs in daily life, using various digital tools (EC 2016, OECD 2016). A substantial amount of researchers in South Korea began to publish open access journals and deposit their papers and reports to publicly accessible online repositories, and a large number of research communities started to share research data with peers in virtual platforms (Shin et al. forthcoming). Given the emerging phenomena, this presentation overviews global as well as local conditions of open science phenomena, and identifies Korean researchers’ perceptions and attitudes toward open science, based on the results of recent studies. In particular, this talk elaborates key issues addressed by Korean researchers regarding open data, as a part of open science. Lastly, it presents practical as well as theoretical implications drawn from the findings.

Acknowledgements:

This presentation is based on the tentative results of an ongoing project, “Policy Measures to Promote Open Science in S. Korea”(PI: Shin, E.J.), which is funded by the Science and Technology Policy Institute (STEPI). My travel to the conference has been made possible by the generous support of WDS Asia-Oceania Conference 2017 SOC.

References:

European Commission (2016) Open Innovation, Open Science, Open to the World, European Commission.

OECD (2016) “Open and Inclusive Collaboration in Science : A Framework”, Global Science Forum(13-14 October 2016) Meeting Document, DSTI/STP/MS(2016)10, (manuscript for discussion).

Shin et al. (forthcoming) Policy Measures to Promote Open Science in S. Korea, Science and Technology Policy Institute (in Korean).