We fully commit to the Open Science principles to improve the quality, efficiency and responsiveness of our research. To this end, we have assigned part of the budget to support open access for the main publication resulting from this project. We will exclusively consider journals that allow public sharing of our preprints on the arXiv preprint servers. This enables timely and free access to the scientific output of this project, as well as increasing discussion and visibility of our new developments.
In addition to disseminating our work to experts via conference presentations and peer reviewed publications, we will share our research with the broader scientific community and general public. We will do this by setting up a project website and associated social media channels (Twitter and Youtube). This will allow us to publish blog posts discussing research developments and share the video or audio outputs. In particular, the presentations of the mini-workshops for promoting the UNA Europa network between Bologna, Edinburgh, and Leuven will be posted there. We will ensure that some of this content will be accessible to non-specialist audiences.
We will employ the version control systems Github and the permanent data repository Zenodo to increase accessibility of developed code and related data sets. These data will additionally be replicated in the institutional repositories of the applications. We will share our software publicly and to make it available for further research development under the 2-Clause BSD License. This will help increase the replicability, reproducibility and reusability of our research outputs.