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Open Science

Open Science aims to make scientific knowledge openly available, accessible and reusable for everyone, to increase scientific collaborations and sharing of information for the benefits of science and society (UNESCO, 2021). It contains several dimensions: Open Access, Open Data and Research Data Management.
  • How can these pages be cited?

    The "Open Science" web pages of the Libraries and Learning Centers and their various components (Open Access, Open Data and Research Data Management) can be cited as follows:

    “Desterbecq J., Wuyts A., Grard A., ‘Open Science’, UCLouvain, Bibliothèques et Learning Centers, Creative Commons License CC BY-SA 4.0, January 2025, https://uclouvain.be/fr/bibliotheques/open-science”.

    The pages devoted to Research Data Management take up and adapt the content initially developed by Adeline Grard, UCLouvain, Université Numérique, Research Data Management, as part of a project supported by the BICfB, Creative Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 License.

    Illustration of this page:

    The Turing Way Community, & Scriberia. (2020). CC-BY 4.0. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4323154