University of Latvia, Riga Technical University, Riga Stradins University, National Library of Latvia and the Association of Latvian Academic Libraries (LATABA) actively support Open Access and Open Science. The interest in the topic is growing in other scientific institutions and at the research policy level.

Overall, there are less positive aspects of rooting progress of  Open Science in Latvia in comparison with other European countries. The main reasons are lack of funding for publishing scientific articles and data in open access; lack of a national open access policy and strategy; lack of knowledge of copyright issues; slow adoption and implementation of open science principles in the day-to-day and research practice; non-inclusion of open access activities in the scientific achievement assessment methodology; as well as there is need to improve infrastructure.