Tomasz Parkoła appointed member of the Advisory Board for the Policy on Open Access to Research Data

2024-03-28

Tomasz Parkoła appointed member of the Advisory Board for the Policy on Open Access to Research Data

Tomasz Parkoła, head of the Department of Digital Libraries and Knowledge Platforms at the Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center, has become a member of the Advisory Board for the Policy on Open Access to Research Data financed from public funds, appointed by the Ministry of Science.

Tomasz Parkoła has become a member of the 13-person Advisory Board for the Policy on Open Access to Research Data financed from public funds, whose work is chaired by Agnieszka Dardzińska-Głębocka, PhD – Vice-Rector of the Białystok University of Technology.

The main task of the newly established body is to analyse and consult a document being developed by the Ministry, setting out the principles for digital access to the content of scientific publications and results of research financed from public funds, in order to enable their free use by scientists, students, entrepreneurs and society as a whole (Open Access).

The advisory team will be responsible for, among other things, developing a strategy for open access to research data in line with the guidelines set by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education and other relevant bodies, coordinating activities and collaborating with various scientific institutions, research funding agencies and other stakeholders to promote the principles of open access, providing educational support to research units and universities in the development and implementation of open access policies, monitoring progress towards the goals of the open access policy and regularly reporting on the results, and promoting the idea.

– I am glad that for the next year I will have a chance to use my experience in a new capacity, i.e. as part of the Advisory Board for the Policy on Open Access to Research Data financed from public funds – said Tomasz Parkoła, adding: – Since the beginning of my work at PSNC, I have been involved in making scientific and cultural heritage data available in open repositories, libraries, museums or digital galleries. At PSNC we open these data, for example by providing technology for the Digital Repository of Scientific Institutes, Europeana, Scientific Information Systems (e.g. Poznan University of Technology, Academy of Military Art), SSH Open Marketplace, or the Reading Room of Journals of PAN.