We invite the Open Science community to submit abstracts for one of the following calls below.

Call for Speakers | Call for Practical Solutions | Call for Scientific Contributions | Call for Workshops

Please send your applications as PDF document via ConfTool (requires free ConfTool account). If you have any questions please feel free to contact osc2023@conftool.org.

Call for Speakers

This call focuses on inspiring talks given by international experts and upcoming talents that discuss Open Science and its recent developments from a wider and forward-looking perspective.

We invite you to submit an abstract for a conference talk covering topics including (but not limited to):

• Open Science in research evaluation
• Open Science and reproducible research
• Open Science and civic science education
• Open Science in times of crises and geopolitical developments
• Open Science and discipline-specific challenges and perspectives (e.g. humanities)
• Open Science and global research equity

Submission
Please submit your application as PDF including a brief outline of your talk and the contribution to the conference topics (not more than 500 words) as well as title, short CV, affiliation, and contact details. Please note that a submission of a talk with more than one speaker is not possible.

All submissions will be peer-reviewed by the members of the programme committee / review board. Beside the review ranking the decision on accepted contributions will be balanced due to diversity aspects by the conference committee. Authors of accepted applications will be invited to give an online talk at the conference. The application and talk must be in English. The presentation slides must be licensed at least as CC-BY 4.0 or CC-BY-SA 4.0 and will be published on Zenodo.

Call for Practical Solutions

This call focuses on contributions with a practical aspect on implementing and fostering Open Science practices (the How is it done?). This can be, for example, projects, infrastructure developments, online platforms, tools, and also practical experiences (positive / negative). The presentation of demonstrations and prototypes are welcome. We invite you to submit an abstract for the following topics (but not limited to):

• Recent innovations, tools, projects, and infrastructures to support Open
• Science practices and their application and acceptance in scientific communities
• Novel approaches and experiences to transform the scholarly communication system
• Recent (technical) developments in the fields of Open Research Data and Open Research Software
• Good practices dealing with Open Science education and science communication to the broad public (science popularization, civic science education)

Submission
Please submit your abstract as PDF (not more than 500 words) that summarizes your contribution (including technical readiness level if applicable) and highlights its relevance for the conference. Please end your abstract with key practical take-aways.

All submissions will be peer-reviewed by the members of the programme committee / the review board. The decision on accepted contributions is solely based on the review ranking. Authors of accepted abstracts will be invited to present the contribution within a virtual exhibition hall during the conference. Information on the technical environment will be provided in time.

Call for Scientific Contributions

This call focuses on research and meta-research findings from studies, etc. that are related to Open Science. We invite you to submit an abstract (but not limited to):

• Empirical studies on the effects and impact of global crises on open research practices and science communication
• Empirical studies about the scientific benefit of Open Science practices
• Empirical studies about the impact of Open Science practices in society
• Empirical studies on the impact of Open Science / OER on the socioeconomic education gap
• Empirical studies on the measurement of the benefit and impact of Open Science practices

Submission
Please submit your unpublished abstract as PDF (not more than 500 words) that summarizes your scientific contribution and highlights its relevance for the conference. Only authors who have made a substantial contribution to the work presented should be listed. There is a limit of two submissions per corresponding/first author. To enable blind review the abstract must be submitted in a fully anonymous format so that the respective PDF (including metadata) does not contain any information that might reveal the author´s identity, e.g., author name, project name, links to project websites, own publications. Submissions that are not in line with these conditions of anonymity will be rejected and excluded from the review.

All submissions will be peer-reviewed by the members of the programme committee / review board. The decision on accepted contributions is solely based on the review ranking. Authors of accepted abstracts will be invited to give a short ‘highlight talk’ at the conference. The application and talk must be in English.

To also contribute to the Open Science movement, scientific justifications for acceptance will be published on the conference website. The presentation slides must be licensed at least as CC-BY 4.0 or CC-BY-SA 4.0 and will be published on Zenodo.

Call for Workshops

This call focuses on practical and hands-on workshops related to Open Science (including Open Access, Open Data, Open Research Software, Open Educational Resources, Open Innovation, etc.).

Submission
Please submit your abstract as PDF (not more than 500 words) that summarizes your workshop idea including a rough schedule and highlights its relevance for the conference. A workshop should not exceed 2 hours.

All submissions will be peer-reviewed by the conference committee. Beside the review ranking the decision on accepted contributions will be balanced due to a broad coverage of topics. Workshop participation requires prior registration, which will be part of the general conference registration.