Since june 2021 Slovakia has National strategy for Open Science (2021-2028) with its Action plan (2021-2022). National strategy is also available in English. The National Strategy for Open Science aims to improve the availability of the Slovak science results and change the system of research and evaluation processes towards higher transparency, reproducibility, and integrity.
The National Strategy covers the following topics:
- Open access to publicly funded publications
- Open access to scientific data
- The technical infrastructure for Open Science
- Open Science financing
- Protection of intellectual property rights
- Usage of existing open IT tools and open data
- Open Science education
- Evaluation of R&D with principles of Open Science
- Citizen Science support