Open Science in Canada's 2018-2020 Open Government Plan

Following a public consultation process, the final version of Canada's 2018-2020 Open Government Plan for the Open Government Partnership has been released.

https://open.canada.ca/en/content/canadas-2018-2020-national-action-plan-open-government

This includes a commitment on open science, the third Canadian open government plan to have such a commitment.

Commitment

The Government of Canada will make federal science, scientific data, and scientists more accessible. We will:

• develop a Canada Open Science Roadmap to provide a plan for greater openness in federal science and research activities
• provide a platform for Canadians to find and access open access publications from federal scientists
• raise public awareness of federal scientists’ work and of open science
• promote open science and solicit feedback on stakeholder needs
• measure progress in implementing open science and the benefits it can provide

You can see the Canadian federal Open Government website for the full details of Commitment 5 Open Science and associated milestones.

Disclaimer: I work on the open science commitment.

The commitment is focused on federal governmental internal ("intramural") science.  There are many other open science related activities in Canada, including the work of the research funding Tri-Agencies (NSERC, SSHRC, CIHR) on Open Access and Research Data Management, as well as IDRC work on international open access, open data for development and open science.  Canadian universities and research organisations also have a variety of open access, research data and open science activities.

Previously:
July 15, 2016 - Open Science in Canada's 2016-2018 Open Government Plan