Some Thoughts about Open Science: A Few Challenges and a Great Opportunity for Science

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Cristina Pujades
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6423-7451

Open Science focuses on spreading knowledge generated by scientific research as soon as it is available using digital and collaborative technology. The aim is to make science more accessible, inclusive, and equitable for the benefit of all. In this article, I will discuss some of the challenges and opportunities of this approach to the scientific process towards a comprehensive, effective open science from my perspective as a scientist in biology and health sciences. My aim is to share this with the academic community, since as Vice-Rector for Research and as scientist, I think this is one opportunity that we do not want to miss.

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FAIR principles, Open Science guidelines, Open Access publications, Scientific careers, Academic evaluations

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Pujades, Cristina. “Some Thoughts about Open Science: A Few Challenges and a Great Opportunity for Science”. Hipertext.net, 2023, no. 27, pp. 107-11, doi:10.31009/hipertext.net.2023.i27.11.
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Cristina Pujades, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Full Professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra and ICREA Academia awardee from the Generalitat de Catalunya. After my PhD in Biology from the Universitat de Barcelona, I did a postdoctoral stay at the DFCI-Harvard Medical School (Boston). In 1995, I moved to Paris as a postdoc at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, and in 1999 I got a permanent position at Sorbonne University. From that time, I have been fascinated by developmental neurobiology, and how to move from DNA and genes to the generation of form. This has been the main focus of my latest scientific career. In 2002, I had the opportunity of joining the Department of Medicine and Life Sciences at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. In my lab, we are interested in understanding how spatiotemporally coordinated cell progenitor specification and differentiation occur during morphogenesis to construct a functional brain (https://pujadeslab.upf.edu/). Currently, I am serving as Vice-Rector for Research at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra

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