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Recommendations for open science publications at Helmholtz

To provide Helmholtz scientists with practical assistance for the open publication of their texts, data and software the Helmholtz Open Science Office has developed recommendations for open science publications at Helmholtz.

Open publishing at Helmholtz

In line with the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science and the anchoring of open science in German, European and international science policy, Helmholtz adopted its Open Science Policy in September 2022. The Helmholtz Centers call on their employees to publish research results that they have achieved alone or in collaboration with other researchers as part of their work for Helmholtz according to the principle of intelligent openness – that is, ”as open as possible and as closed as necessary”. This will help ensure that their work results are easily accessible to science, industry, and society with minimal barriers.

An open science culture considers research products such as datasets and code equally important as articles and other text publications. To provide Helmholtz scientists with practical assistance for the open publication of their texts, data and software the Helmholtz Open Science Office has developed recommendations for open science publications in Helmholtz. The document contains useful hints, references and information on the open science requirements at Helmholtz and the requirements of selected funding organizations.

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