Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information

🌍 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐚 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐚𝐯𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐀𝐫𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐜, 𝐉𝐚𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐑𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐧 Hello | مرحبًا | こんにちは | Salut The Barcelona Declaration is shaped by an international and diverse community. Making the Declaration available in local languages supports outreach and understanding across different contexts, helping institutions and communities engage with its ideas in ways that feel accessible and relevant. We’re happy to share new translations of the Declaration in Arabic, Japanese, and Romanian, made possible through ongoing community collaboration.With these additions, the Barcelona Declaration is now available in 𝟏𝟖 𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬, reflecting the growing global engagement around open research information. 🔗 Read the translations: Arabic: https://lnkd.in/d3D33q5m  Japanese: https://lnkd.in/dGBdwa3i  Romanian: https://lnkd.in/dm5gGciq 🙏 Many thanks to the translators and reviewers who contributed to this work: Igor Cojocaru, Jacir Hilmi, Emily Choynowski, PhD, Mohamad Mostafa, Kazuhiro Hayashi, and Honami Numajiri. 🤝Each new translation helps strengthen connections across regions and communities working toward open research information.

🧩 Two new sessions are now live on the Barcelona Declaration YouTube channel: exploring how open research infrastructures are sustained, and how different actors across the ecosystem contribute to that The Barcelona Declaration’s Working Group 5 (Sustaining Infrastructures) brought together key actors from across the open research ecosystem to explore a shared question: How can governance, community and institutional support work together to sustain open research infrastructures? We’ve now published two complementary sessions: 🔹 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬 with Kyle Demes (OpenAlex), Natalia Manola (OpenAIRE AMKE) and Chiara Di Giambattista (OpenCitations). Looking at sustainability models, governance, cost structures, growth, and long-term resilience from the perspective of infrastructures themselves. 🔹 𝐑𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐈𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬 with Katherine Skinner & Sarah Lippincott (Invest in Open Infrastructure), Rosalie Lack, MIMS, MSL (SCOSS - The Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services), and Maxence Larrieu (TSOSI). Exploring how coordination, visibility, and shared responsibility can strengthen sustainability across the ecosystem. Together, these conversations show that sustainability is not just about funding: it’s about governance, coordination, visibility, and community-led approaches. 🎥 Watch both sessions on the Barcelona Declaration YouTube channel: Open Infrastructures → https://lnkd.in/eMG7BzAQ Related Initiatives → https://lnkd.in/eMyx8cGz 📄 The presentations are also available on Zenodo: Open Infrastructures → https://lnkd.in/ekkMg26H Related Initiatives → https://lnkd.in/eJjBSr5p 👉 Know someone working on open infrastructure, funding, or policy? These sessions are for them.

𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 𝗶𝗻 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: 𝗔𝗱𝘃𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝘀 𝗮 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 As we step into 2026, we’re looking back at a very significant year for the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information. In 2025, we continue to grow as a community-driven initiative, advancing concrete work to improve the openness, transparency, and community governance of research information, with more to come in 2026. 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 𝗵𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀: 🤝 Three years of secured funding and a strengthened coordination team 🌍 30 new signatories and 7 new supporters from 17 countries worldwide 🏛️ Came together in person at the Bologna Meeting on Open Research Information, while also connecting through webinars and mutual-learning sessions 🧩 Seven Working Groups advancing concrete work, including new task forces 🌐 Ongoing engagement with stakeholder communities across Europe and Latin America 🔗 Read the 𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 𝗶𝗻 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: https://lnkd.in/ew7wH3gN Interested in signing the Barcelona Declaration? Get in touch: contact@barcelona-declaration.org Let’s keep building open research information in 2026! #OpenResearch #OpenScience #ResearchInformation #ScholarlyCommunication #BarcelonaDeclaration

⚠️ 𝗔𝗖𝗠 𝗗𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗟𝗶𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗿𝘆: 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗯𝗲𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗮 𝗽𝗮𝘆𝘄𝗮𝗹𝗹 A relevant development in the computer science community has recently emerged around open research information. ACM, Association for Computing Machinery announced a full transition to open access publishing, but at the same time it put most metadata and search functionalities of ACM Digital Library behind a paywall. Access to ACM’s full bibliographic database, covering content from more than 8,000 publishers, is now available only as a Premium service for subscribing institutions and researchers. These changes have prompted discussion within the computer science community. Among the responses, a petition has been launched calling for the restoration of fully free and open access to ACM Digital Library metadata and search functionalities. 📝 More context:   https://lnkd.in/eE7-9Zse https://lnkd.in/dCyuHhMN

𝗦𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻’𝘀 𝗴𝗿𝗲𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗮 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆: 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗸 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗯𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗶𝘁 As we close the year, we want to pause and acknowledge the people behind the work of the Barcelona Declaration: across working groups, task forces, and the many conversations that keep this community moving forward. Wherever you’re closing the year from (cold or warm weather!), we hope you’re able to enjoy a well-deserved break. Looking ahead to 2026, we remain committed to advancing open research information 𝘁𝗼𝗴𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿. Thank you for all the connections that make this community possible 🟣🟡

Blog post | Open funder metadata is essential for true research transparency (𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘓𝘚𝘌 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘵 𝘣𝘭𝘰𝘨) Funding transparency is widely recognised as essential for trust in research, and recent guidance from COPE and the International Science Council shows this is firmly on the agenda. Open funder metadata adds an important new layer to the discussion by focusing on what is needed beyond funding statements in individual publications. In this piece, Hans de Jonge, NWO (Dutch Research Council), Katharina Rieck (Austrian Science Fund FWF), and Zoé Ancion (ANR, the French National Research Agency) (coordinators of 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗽 𝟯 𝗼𝗻 𝗙𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗠𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 of the Barcelona Declaration) examine why true transparency requires funding information to be available as open, structured metadata. 𝗛𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁: ✨ Funding transparency is a shared goal, but funding statements alone are not sufficient 🔎 Open, structured funding metadata makes it possible to analyse and verify funding information across many research outputs 🏗️ Existing infrastructure plays a key role, including persistent identifiers for grants such as Crossref Grant IDs, and stronger metadata workflows 🔗 Meaningful progress depends on clear roles for funders, publishers, and infrastructure providers Read the full post here: https://lnkd.in/epPsbRTa #OpenResearchInformation #FundingMetadata #OpenMetadata #ResearchTransparency #OpenScience

The disclosure of who funds research is an important way of building trust in published findings. In a blogpost on the The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) Impact Blog, Hans de Jonge Katharina Rieck and Zoé Ancion (co-chairs of the Barcelona Declaration working group on funding metadata) argue that to be truly effective funder metadata should be made openly accessible to all beyond the level of individual publications. https://lnkd.in/et7VUiae The blogpost is a commentary on recent interventions by Commenting on recent interventions by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and the International Science Council

CNRS Moves Beyond Closed Systems and Sets an Example The CNRS decision to discontinue institutional access to Web of Science from 2026 is a significant and very welcome step in reducing structural dependence on proprietary citation indexes in research assessment workflows. By moving away from closed, commercial bibliometric databases as a primary source of evaluative indicators, CNRS is actively reconfiguring the inputs that shape research evaluation, funding decisions, and institutional strategies. This shift opens the door to more transparent, interoperable and inclusive research information infrastructures, and creates space for indicators that better reflect disciplinary diversity, multilingual scholarship and a wider range of research outputs and contributions. This decision is strongly aligned with the vision of the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information, which calls on institutions to make open, reusable research information the default and to support transparent evaluation practices. 👏 We warmly congratulate CNRS on this important decision. It offers a concrete, institution-level example of how the transition towards open research information can be operationalised in practice, and it will no doubt inform and inspire similar discussions in other countries and organisations.  📝 More context: https://lnkd.in/eDw_hsyt

CNRS Moves Beyond Closed Systems and Sets an Example The CNRS decision to discontinue institutional access to Web of Science from 2026 is a significant and very welcome step in reducing structural dependence on proprietary citation indexes in research assessment workflows. By moving away from closed, commercial bibliometric databases as a primary source of evaluative indicators, CNRS is actively reconfiguring the inputs that shape research evaluation, funding decisions, and institutional strategies. This shift opens the door to more transparent, interoperable and inclusive research information infrastructures, and creates space for indicators that better reflect disciplinary diversity, multilingual scholarship and a wider range of research outputs and contributions. This decision is strongly aligned with the vision of the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information, which calls on institutions to make open, reusable research information the default and to support transparent evaluation practices. 👏 We warmly congratulate CNRS on this important decision. It offers a concrete, institution-level example of how the transition towards open research information can be operationalised in practice, and it will no doubt inform and inspire similar discussions in other countries and organisations.  📝 More context: https://lnkd.in/eDw_hsyt

Join us on 4 December: institutions opening up research information systems 🔓🚀 This Thursday, we’ll be hosting the webinar Open Research Information in Action: Institutional Journeys Toward Open Systems, co-organised by the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information and the Helmholtz Open Science Office 📊 Over 200 people have already registered to learn how four institutions across Europe and Latin America are using or moving toward open, non-proprietary systems for working with research information: 🇮🇹 University of Milan 🇨🇴 Universidad de Antioquia 🇳🇱 Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam) Universiteit Amsterdam 🇩🇪 Leibniz Association Speakers will share concrete steps they’re taking, how they support researchers in this transition, and the diverse approaches they are following. Event details 📅 Date: Thursday 4 December 2025 🕒 Time: 15:00–16:30 CET 🌐 Format: Online webinar 🔗 Register here: https://lnkd.in/euF_YmkW ℹ️ More information: https://lnkd.in/e2eNff5R Whether you’re a Barcelona Declaration signatory, considering signing, or working with institutional research information systems (libraries, IT, research policy, evaluation), you’re very welcome to join us. 💬