The Digital Cultural Change within the Program Hamburg Open Science

Transparency in Hamburg's scientific community, the further development of Hamburg as a university location, open access to research results, and secure long-term data storage are the main objectives of the Hamburg Open Science program. Hamburg Open Science bundles eight inter-university projects to promote open science at Hamburg's six state universities, the University Medical Center Hamburg Eppendorf and the Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky State and University Library.

The program is funded by the city of Hamburg for the period 2018-2020 and is supported by the Ministry of Science, Research and Equality. The eight projects science data management, science information system, open access repositories, archive data storage, modern publishing, web platform, 3D and audio visual science data, and the digital cultural change are developing the basis for the long-term operation of Open Science services from 2021 onwards. The web platform www.openscience.hamburg.de provides access to research results from Hamburg and is to be expanded into an information platform on science in Hamburg.

The idea of Open Science in the program context is that the digitalization of science enables a complete redesign of basic science principles and turning them into reality under the principles of transparency, reproducibility, reusability, open communication and exchange.

Therefore, the project aims of the digital cultural change are to create an awareness of open science among researchers and to integrate openness into their everyday work so that they can continue to focus on their research. The Hamburg Open Science program thus supports all orientations of Open Science by actively supporting scientists in their working methods, structures and behavior patterns towards open science.