Simply being open is not enough; infrastructure must also be enduring. The Open Science movement stands at a critical juncture. While the principle of making research outputs "open" is now widely accepted as a prerequisite for progress, the true challenge remains: achieving long-term sustainability for the core infrastructures that make this openness possible.  This was the central question explored at the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information's recent Working Group 5 session o...

This blog was jointly written with Elli Papadopoulou. In Greece and Sweden, emergency departments face a common challenge: patients arriving with ambiguous symptoms that could signal either minor issues or life-threatening conditions. Doctors at AHEPA Hospital in Thessaloniki and hospitals using the CLEOS system in Sweden have been collecting rich triage data, vital signs, symptoms, medical histories, but sharing and jointly analyzing these datasets has been nearly impossible. The data contain s...

What's at Stake: A Multipolar Open Science Landscape Open Science is playing an increasingly important role in enabling global scientific collaboration. As science policy gains strategic weight in international relations, initiatives like China's International Cooperation in Open Science, launched at the 2024 G20 Summit[1], reflect a growing ambition to contribute to a more inclusive and sovereign global approach to openness. With investments in regional capacity-building, national cloud platfor...

Background: Researchers can leverage AI algorithms to analyze vast amounts of data quickly and efficiently. Moreover, AI tools are being used to generate content, write code, resolve accessibility issues, reconfigure writing processes and detect plagiarism. All this is reshaping researcher practice and culture in how they communicate, how they share, how they view infrastructure. What's at stake: Open Science and Open Scholarly Communication cannot and should not progress unless i...