Barcelona Declaration: Who we are

to tell you about the Barcelona declaration on open research information. I want to take you back about two years to where else Barcelona where in November 2023 the declaration was drafted at a workshop and it was subsequently published in April 2024. But what is the Barcelona declaration on open research information? To start with with research information,

we mean metadata, biblographic metadata, metadata on research data, software, funding information, and other metadata. That's for instance captured in biblioraphic databases and often not openly available. And we feel that it's important for this research information to be available free to use and free from restrictions on reuse as open research information because it enables full transparency in

research assessments, equitable decision making using inclusive data and monitoring and incentivizing open science using actual open data. To this end, the Barcelona Declaration calls on organizations that carry out, fund, and evaluate research to commit to the following. Making openness the default for research information that is used and produced. Working with services and systems that

support and enable open research information. supporting the sustainability of infrastructures for open research information and to support collective action to accelerate this transition. In practice, this can look like counseling subscriptions to proprietary databases working together towards a platform for all research output from the Netherlands as open research information. doing research analytics based on fully

open data like with the lighter ranking open edition and for funding information for instance funders providing persistent identifiers for their grants to enable linking to publications. When we look at the Netherlands in October 2025, since the start of the declaration in November 2023, we currently have six universities that signed up to the declaration and a