Road to Open Science (R2OS)

In the first University Cooperative workshop on May 14th 2019, at Utrecht University, participants were introduced to the issues, the concepts, and successful examples of governing common resources. They also investigated two cases related to the university and knowledge dissemination. In this podcast some of the participants reflect on the program of the day. [more info](https://openscience-utrecht.com/workshop-the-university-cooperative/)

Nearly thirty years ago, Elinor Ostrom published her groundbreaking book Governing the Commons, in which she showed that users of natural and agricultural resources can and do govern such resources themselves. They do not have to rely on hierarchical state or corporate regulation, nor on a pricing mechanism to overcome the collective action problems that may arise. By setting up rules together, and monitoring compliance with these rules, commoners are able to manage resources themselves. Ostrom also extended her work on commons governance to knowledge commons.

Sharing resources, such as data, methods, publications, and the curriculum, is one of the foundations of university education and development. But today many academic resources such as subscriptions and the syllabus are managed in a rigid, bureaucratic way. Many users and producers of resources and knowledge lack the opportunity to express their wishes and highlight alternatives.

In the first University Cooperative workshop on May 14th 2019, at Utrecht University, participants were introduced to the issues, the concepts, and successful examples of governing common resources. They also investigated two cases related to the university and knowledge dissemination. This podcast reports on this workshop. [more info](https://openscience-utrecht.com/workshop-the-university-cooperative/)

In the May episode of the Road to Open Science newschat, Melanie Imming and Loek Brinkman talk with Jeroen Bosman and Bianca Kramer about some of the latest developments in Open Science in Utrecht and beyond. Topics discussed include recent activities of the Open Science Community, developments within the National Platform Open Science (NPOS), and a workshop on University Cooperatives building on the idea of the university as a commons. We also discuss how the current discourse around Open Science is viewed by researchers.

[Bianca Kramer](twitter.com/MsPhelps) and [Jeroen Sondervan](twitter.com/jeroenson) share recent development with open science activities in Utrecht, the Netherlands, and the EU. We also discuss a recent report from the Horizon 2020 expert group on Future of Scholarly Publishing and Scholarly Communication provided to the European Commission .

[Anita Eerland](twitter.com/AnitaEerland) and [Jeroen Bosman](twitter.com/jeroenbosman) share some hot news about open access publishing. We also discuss the recent growth of the Open Science communities in The Netherlands and formation of the Open Science platform at Utrecht University with an ambitious plan.

Micah Vandegrift is Open Knowledge Librarian at North Carolina State University, and recipient of a Fulbright fellowship to study the state of Open Science in two European Countries, Denmark and The Netherlands. He tells us about his observations in Europe and his vision on the future position of libraries in the "discovery" decade of open science.

[Bianca Kramer](https://twitter.com/MsPhelps) and [Barbara Vreede](https://twitter.com/barbaravreede) tell us some good news and we review the newly released information about the execution of planS and the discussions around it.

Jeroen Sondervan reports from the KNAW- organized meeting on Plan S and publishing open access books

We hear from Marleen Stikker and Bianca Kramer on governing scholarly work like creative commons.

Marleen Stikker is founder of Waag. She is also founder of De Digitale Stad (The Digital City) in 1993, the first virtual community introducing free public access to the Internet. She leads Waag, a social enterprise that consists of a research institute for creative technologies and social innovation. She is also member of the European H2020 Commission High-level Expert Group for SRIA on innovating Cities / DGResearch and the Dutch AcTI academy technology & innovation.

Marleen Stikker strongly adheres to the Maker’s Bill of Rights motto: “If You Can’t Open It, You Don’t Own It”. Marleen is actively involved in the Open Design and Creative Commons movement and believes that society needs open technologies that meet societal challenges.

Bianca Kramer is subject specialist Life Sciences and Medicine at Utrecht University Library. Bianca studied Biology at Wageningen University and is one of the initiators of the project 101 Innovation in scholarly communication.

Please feel welcome to engage in the discussion on twitter (twitter.com/R2OSpodcast) or on the portal of the Open Science Community Utrecht (openscience-utrecht.com/r2os-episode-6/) where you can also find all the show-notes

Barbara Vreede and Jeroen Bosman talk about Plan S and the Force2018 conference in Montreal