JUDr. Lukáš Lev Červinka ****************************************************************************************** * ****************************************************************************************** Department of Constitutional Law Faculty of Law ORCID: 0000-0002-0770-7071 [ URL "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0770-7071"] Twitter: @CervinkaLev [ URL "https://twitter.com/cervinkalev"] ****************************************************************************************** * What led you to open science, and how did your relationship with open science develop? ****************************************************************************************** During my PhD studies, I have repeatedly encountered situations where I had to ask my coll different faculties or from other universities if they could send me an article from a jou not have access to at the Faculty of Law, because the content of the journal was not purel was the first time I realized how the closed nature of publishing in the academic world af itself. Simply put, if you don’t have access to some area of scientific knowledge, you are on another area and to develop your focus and research projects with this factor in mind a ****************************************************************************************** * What do you get out of open science on a daily basis? ****************************************************************************************** On the one hand, it is my effort to produce work and the data on which it is based in such truly accessible to anyone, and then also to share my academic interests with the wider pu ****************************************************************************************** * Why is openness in science important to you (what are the benefits)? ****************************************************************************************** In my opinion, open science is the only way not only to develop scientific knowledge, but plurality in the academic world. In other words, open discussion is only possible if scien is open. The moment we confine ourselves to our “national” sciences, narrowly defined fiel periodicals accessible only to affiliated academics, we unavoidably deprive ourselves of a for open discussion. Then there is opening science up to the outside world, which is the o prevent separating science from reality as well as society’s dwindling trust in science as benefits to society as a whole. ****************************************************************************************** * What would you recommend to colleagues who want to use open science principles for their ****************************************************************************************** Find someone at your workplace who has already taken this path and will be able to advise find your way. Well, and besides that, above all, deciding to use open science does not me always publish in open access mode or not publish at all, especially for beginning academi open science is not a dogma. It is better to try to do your best than to burn out trying t kind of ideal. ****************************************************************************************** * In your opinion, what obstacles must one overcome so that open science can become common ****************************************************************************************** In Czech legal studies, it is primarily a lack of information. A beginning researcher ofte open science by accident and is not very motivated to go down this path. ****************************************************************************************** * What does open science mean to you in one sentence? ****************************************************************************************** An open discussion across the academic community and the general public.