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Open Science

The Open Science Policy promotes the accessibility and transparency of research results. CEDIS adopts its principles, in line with the European Commission and the FCT.

Policy of Open Science from the European Commission

01Open Science: a paradigm shift

The Policy of Open Science from the European Commission is a scientific research paradigm that promotes the accessibility and transparency of research results. CEDIS, in line with the European Commission, adopts the principles of Open Science as a value, with the aim of:

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Improving the quality of research by sharing data and results

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Increasing collaboration between researchers and institutions

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Facilitating access to knowledge for the scientific community, companies, policy makers and the general public

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Ensuring reproducibility of scientific studies

02FCT Open Access Standards

FCT adheres to the European Commission’s Open Science Policy, promoting the harmonisation of publication standards and the adoption of Open Science practices among researchers, with the aim of ensuring that the results of publicly funded research are accessible to as many people as possible.

The main points of these standards are:

01 Publication in open access journals or platforms
02 Open access publication under transformative agreements

As for point 3, it can be made available in the repository: a) the publisher’s version; b) the author’s version of the accepted manuscript (after the content changes introduced in the peer review process or required by the editor), before it has been submitted for proofreading and typesetting by the publisher (Accepted Author’s Manuscript).

Finally, licenses should be used that allow free access and reuse of the content, as long as the author is properly referenced, such as Creative Commons licenses.

03Copyright

In order to make it easier for researchers to retain copyright, Horizon Europe and cOAlition S recommends that original research papers submitted to peer-reviewed journals and scientific publishers include the following statement:

This research was funded, in whole or in part by the [funding agency] [Grant number]. As set out in the Grant Agreement, beneficiaries must ensure that at the latest at the time of publication, open access is provided via a trusted repository to the published version or the final peer-reviewed manuscript accepted for publication under the latest available version of the Creative Commons Attribution International Public Licence (CC BY) or a licence with equivalent rights. [CC BY-NC, CC BY-ND, CC BY-NC-ND or equivalent licenses could be applied to long-text formats.] For the purpose of Open Access, the author has applied a CC BY public copyright license – Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising from this submission.

04NOVA University Lisbon Rules for Institutional Affiliation

Indication of institutional affiliation in publications is mandatory. Failure to use the standard defined by NOVA University Lisbon makes it impossible to take researchers’ scientific productivity into account when evaluating the research unit and the respective faculty to which it belongs. CEDIS researchers must indicate their institutional affiliation:

NOVA School of Law (NSL), Research & Development Centre on Law and Society (CEDIS), Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (UNL), 1099-032 Lisbon, Portugal.

05FCT Publicity Rules

In addition, all CEDIS members must comply with the FCT’s publicity rules, mentioning the funding as follows:

This work was funded by FCT, I.P., under project UID/00714/2020 (CEDIS/NOVA School of Law).

See our page Media Kit to find out more about how we comply with the FCT’s publicity rules and to obtain the logos.

Media Kit