The Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL) cordially invites you to participate in the Open Science Days 2017. The thematic focus of this event is: Open Research Data

There are expected fruitful discussions related to the following issues:

• Does the practice of Open Research Data deliver significant benefits for researchers at all?
• Is there even any remarkable re-use of the existing amount of data already available on various platforms today?
• Which lessons can be drawn from success stories as well as from stories of ‘failure’?
• Do we see that the topic has truly arrived in regular research and teaching?

Apart from the Open Access movement, this probably is the most prominent area of Open Science right now. The striving for freely accessible research data is based on different motivations:

• The reproducibility of research could allow the prevention of fraud – to a much greater extent than it is possible today.
• The availability of research output produced by their colleagues can prevent researchers from investing valuable resources into certain steps that have already been done.
• The published datasets may become the basis for completely new research activity – even beyond disciplinary borders.
• Open Research Data also opens up new potential for re-use by members of the economy.
• The broad availability of research data may help to include citizens in the research process (Citizen Science) and thus, to raise awareness and acceptance within the society.

Research funders and publishers have begun to implement mandates or at least recommendations concerning the publication of data. Thus, the topic of Open Research Data will, in any case, become relevant for a growing number of researchers in the upcoming years.

Participants will have the opportunity to present their own ideas, experiences, initiatives or activities and to discuss current topics related to Open Research Data. Aside from the mentioned thematic priority, there will also be room for discussion on current developments concerning further areas of Open Science.