Addressing the Seven Sins of Open Science with SRCE's services

Recently, Barend Mons published a series of blogs “The Seven Capital Sins of Open Science” in which he wrote about the struggle to practice FAIR and Equitable Science within traditional scientific barriers. He raises many challenging questions such as the outdated reward system, the lack of awareness about the value of data, the need to appreciate the culture and expertise of other disciplines as well as the importance of machine-actionable, rich and FAIR metadata. Moreover, he points out how today’s research depends on high-quality, reliable, and reusable data, supported by well-structured data management and research infrastructures.

With this work, we aim to show how the main e-Infrastructure and digital services provider for higher education and research in Croatia - the University of Zagreb University Computing Centre (SRCE) supports researchers and research performing organisations in bridging those seven sins. SRCE provides a set of services including (Diamond) Open Access Portal of Croatian Scientific and Professional Journals - HRČAK, national infrastructure for digital repositories – DABAR, and an Advanced computing service providing researchers necessary e-Infrastructure to perform data intensive science. In addition, SRCE actively promotes open science and FAIR principles through organization of workshops and webinars, and the development of educational materials on the topic of Open Science, Research Data Management and FAIR principles. Through these activities, SRCE fosters a culture of openness across the research community.