RNDr. Vojtěch Abraham, Ph.D. ****************************************************************************************** * ****************************************************************************************** Department of Botany Faculty of Science ORCID iD: 0000-0001-6738-0392 [ URL "https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6738-0392"] Github: vojtechabraham [ URL "https://github.com/vojtechabraham"]   Twitter: @voj_abr [ URL "https://twitter.com/voj_abr"] Scopus Author ID: 35319628700 [ URL "https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=353 Researcher ID: E-6784-2016 [ URL "https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/E-6784-20 ****************************************************************************************** * What led you to open science, and how did your relationship with open science develop? ****************************************************************************************** My PhD research topic brought me to open science. I do pollen analyses from peat and lake involves counting pollen grains, and this is a very slow and tedious activity. I decided t one colleague to create a Czech Quaternary Pollen database with all accessible records [ U botany.natur.cuni.cz/palycz/"] , so that I could devote myself to interpretation and overa I was mainly interested in how our vegetation developed during the Holocene. When our data sufficiently developed, we began to cooperate with colleagues from abroad who collected da European Pollen Database [ URL "https://epdweblog.org/epd-data-stewards/"] . However, the data available to the general public were difficult to maintain. In addition, all of the i already existed for the global palaeoecological database Neotoma [ URL "https://www.neotom became its stewards and imported all European data into it. Neotoma offers access to data interface and the statistical package neotoma2 [ URL "http://open.neotomadb.org/neotoma2/" the R environment. Another advantage is that Neotoma can accommodate very diverse environm from the past (plant seeds, animal bones and shells, diatoms, biomarkers, charcoals). Than can analyse the environmental history from all archives at once.    ****************************************************************************************** * What do you get out of open science on a daily basis? ****************************************************************************************** Data management, searching for and verifying data in publications and on maps, but I certa every day.   ****************************************************************************************** * Why is openness in science important to you (what are the benefits)? ****************************************************************************************** Openness with respect to data and software accelerates scientific knowledge. When we have to repeat an analysis, it makes us much more involved in the problem than just a text in a can try slightly different settings, new data, and come up with something new, or perhaps mistake.  Open publications are first and foremost essential for the society that finances all scien articles have moved away from ordinary publications. It’s not something you buy in a newss all our articles belong to society, and no one should have to pay for them again. Secondly also works in a positive way within the academic community, since poorer institutions may means to pay for expensive subscriptions.    ****************************************************************************************** * What would you recommend to colleagues who want to use open science principles for their ****************************************************************************************** Not to be afraid and to abide by the ethical rules for data/software re-use.   ****************************************************************************************** * In your opinion, what obstacles must one overcome so that open science can become common ****************************************************************************************** Introducing new open access journals is problematic. The decision to assign an impact fact completely transparent and democratic, and if the journal does not succeed in getting one, out of the game. Predatory magazines do get them, but their quality often doesn’t match up journals owned by large publishers are of good quality and offer open access, but again at times higher than real costs. Fees for open science should certainly not be for profit-see that exploit public funds.  In order to remove these obstacles, the method of evaluating science will probably need to One possibility would be to stop pursuing an indicator that is in the hands of a private c rather take into account other indicators. It will certainly be necessary to push the pric fees down. This alone will make open science accessible to all potential creators. As we h in neighbouring Germany and elsewhere, negotiations will require unifying strategies acros institutions, persistence, and perhaps even radical change.   ****************************************************************************************** * What does open science mean to you in one sentence. ****************************************************************************************** Open science has doors open in both directions, in and out.