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Université Rennes 2 is committed to developing open science and encourages members of its community to take part in this movement.

The university has been committed to open science for several years now :

  • A Université Rennes 2 HAL collection enables researchers to signal and deposit the full text of their publications in this open archive.
  • In the wake of a survey conducted in 2017 into representations and practices relating to academic staff’s research data, the SCD (the university library), URFIST Bretagne-Pays de la Loire (regional training unit for technical and scientific information), and the MSHB (the Brittany human sciences institute) started working together on managing research data.
  • Since 2019, a research data steering committee has fixed objectives for progressively opening up university-produced research data. The remit of this steering committee was expanded in 2021 to embrace all matters relating to open science so as to coordinate a unified vision of these issues.
  • A SOcle operational working group, comprised of IT professionals, engineers, legal advisers, and academics from the SCD, URFIST, the MSHB, the university’s legal unit, and the DRV (research promotion unit), provides support for researchers wishing to conduct open science.

Université Rennes 2 is now further consolidating its commitment to open science via a charter and an action plan :

Titre de l'encadré
Université Rennes 2 open science charter
texte
  • Generalise open access to publications
  • Promote bibliodiversity and publishing diversity
  • Make research data as open as possible
  • Inform, train, and provide support for open science
  • Champion science done for and by society
  • Implement effective governance of open science

Lastly, Université Rennes 2 is committed to working with partners on projects to develop open science such as :

  • The REGOSO project (for journals in the Grand Ouest), managed by the MSHB, providing graduated and shared support for moving towards open science. It is one of 22 projects to have been selected under the first call for proposals by the Fonds National pour la Science Ouverte (FNSO, the National Open Science Foundation) for open scientific publishing.
  • The CPER open science platform (publications, data, and awareness-raising) managed by the MSHB in partnership with the four university sites in Brittany: establishing an ecosystem adapted to the deployment of open science in HASS throughout Brittany, including the planned DataLab to be housed at Université Rennes 2’s main university library
  • The SO PUR project (Presses Universitaires de Rennes open science), managed by PUR and involving 11 universities, selected under the FNSO second call for proposals. This will devise and develop services and support, linking print publishing to the development of open science in a regional, national, and international ecosystem.