The Institut Pasteur has been acting in favor of Open Science by adopting two founding texts in May 2021: a Charter for Open Access to publications and a Policy for the management and sharing of research data and software code.
The Institut Pasteur has supported Open Science since the signing of the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in 2004. This commitment to Open Science has since been formalised in the 2019-2023 Strategic Plan, one of whose goals is to promote Open Access to publications and research data.
By adopting two new policies in May 2021, the Institut Pasteur makes its commitment concrete and shows its will to be in line with the global movement for Open Science in order to:
The Institut Pasteur aims at reaching 100% of the year's publications in Open Access from 2021 onwards.
With the Charter for Open Access to publications, the Institut Pasteur requires their researchers to:
The Charter goes along with a practical guide to answer questions about Open Access and HAL.
The charter was developed as part of a project led by the CeRIS.
Contact: hal-pasteur@pasteur.fr
This Policy sets out the Institut Pasteur's guidelines on the management and sharing of research data and software code. It aims to facilitate the sharing and reuse of data and software code according to the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) principles.
It summarises the best practices to be implemented throughout the research process and refers to fact sheets that give scientists the operational resources they need to implement these best practices.
This Policy was developed as part of a collaborative, transversal project led by the CeRIS and the Data Management Core Facility.
Contact: rdm-policy@pasteur.fr
The French Open Science Monitor has been adapted for the Institut Pasteur. It measures the evolution of the open access rate of publications for which at least one of the authors is affiliated with the Institut Pasteur.
According to this barometer, 86% of Pasteurian publications published in 2020 were open access in December 2021. In comparison, at the national level, 62% of French publications published in 2020 were in open access in 2021 (all fields).
To go further: find here the 25 most important publishers or platforms for Pasteurian researchers in terms of volume of publications, as well as the rate and the methods of open access for those publications.
Methodology:
This monitor was created according to a methodology developed by the Ministry of Higher Education and Research (MESR) and Université de Lorraine (the University of Lorraine). The data of publications from 2016 to 2020 with at least one author affiliated to the Institut Pasteur were extracted in December 2021 from the HAL, Web of Science and Scopus platforms. The types of documents considered were research articles, reviews, letters and book chapters with a DOI. The DOIs were then isolated, deduplicated, and cross-referenced and enriched by the MESR using the Unpaywall API.
Every two weeks, the Open Science newsletter will provide you information and shed light on developments, challenges and new practices in three key areas of Open Science: scientific publishing in the age of Open Access, data and software management and sharing, research evaluation and planning.
