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UNESCO
OASPA

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

2022

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https://doi.org/10.54677/DNSX3809

This publication is available open access under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 IGO (CC-BY-SA 3.0 IGO) license

Abstract

Within the subset of open scientific knowledge, this document refers to scientific publications that include, inter alia, journal articles and books, research reports and conference papers. These publications may be, contain or be accompanied by original scientific research results, research data, software, source code, source materials, workflows and protocols, digital representations of pictorial and graphical materials and scholarly multimedia material. According to the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science, access to scientific knowledge should be as open as possible, and may need to be restricted, in specific circumstance, for example to protect human rights, confidentiality, intellectual property rights, personal information, threatened or endangered species and sacred and secret indigenous knowledge, among others. These circumstances are to be considered exceptions to the practices hereby outlined.

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