Open Climate Campaign Launch!

[Iryna Kuchma]

Dear colleagues,

To make open sharing of research outputs the norm in climate science, Creative Commons, SPARC and EIFL have launched a 4-year Open Climate Campaign! 

 

Climate change, and the resulting harm to our global biodiversity, is one of the world’s most pressing challenges. While the existence of climate change and the resulting loss of biodiversity is certain, knowledge and data about these global challenges and the possible solutions, mitigations and actions to tackle them are too often not publicly accessible.

 

Our campaign will be most grateful if you can help us spread the word of this new initiative with your networks. Here are some things you can do to help:

• Share the campaign website

• Post about the campaign on social media: sample posts: 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6

• Share a blog post about the campaign (Creative Commons, EIFL, SPARC)

• Add a few paragraphs about and a link to the campaign in your newsletter?

• Get involved in the campaign

• Subscribe to the campaign newsletter 

 

Join us!

 

Gratefully,

 

Iryna

Iryna Kuchma
Open Access Programme Manager
iryna....@eifl.net | Skype: iryna.kuchma
EIFL - Electronic Information for Libraries
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The Open Climate Campaign is made possible by grants from the Open Society Foundations and Arcadia – a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin.

 

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Read more about the importance and goals of the Campaign:

When knowledge about climate change and biodiversity is not freely and openly available to all, only part of humanity is able to help build on that knowledge. When only some people are able to contribute to that knowledge, new insights and possible solutions are missing. When the data that supports research is inaccessible, scientists cannot fully assess or replicate results. Addressing a challenge as dramatic as the climate crisis and its effects on global biodiversity will require that everything we know is available to everyone to understand and augment. This campaign will go beyond just sharing climate and biodiversity knowledge, to expand the inclusive, just and equitable knowledge policies and practices that enable better sharing.

The Open Climate Campaign will:

• Bring attention to the issue of access to knowledge on climate change particularly to researchers who are producing the knowledge and informing them of tools that can open their research outputs.

• Work directly with national governments, funders and environmental organizations to identify legal and policy barriers; help governments create, adopt, implement equitable open access policies to overcome them; and make it easier to open and share their climate change research, data and educational resources.

• Identify, engage, and contribute to draft international frameworks to include funder open access policy recommendations, and promote the public benefits of open access knowledge.

• Identify important existing climate and biodiversity research publications not already open access, and unbind those seminal publications to make them open access.

• We will also explore tactics to facilitate changes in publisher actions to ensure future climate and biodiversity research is open access.

• Engage with researchers, universities and policy makers from traditionally excluded groups and geographical regions to ensure inclusive outcomes throughout.