Confronting the climate crisis requires rapid knowledge exchange across geographical and economic boundaries, as well as among various scientific disciplines. In line with this, this year's Open Access Week aims to foster connections and collaboration between the climate movement and the international open science community. This is an opportunity to come together, take action, and raise awareness about how openness contributes to climate justice.

American research institutions are now required to provide free and public access to the results of state-funded research as soon as they are published. The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) has issued updated guidelines for ensuring immediate access to research results funded by the government in a newly released memorandum. This document represents a significant shift from the previous terms of public access to scientific findings. Public institutions are expected to fully adapt their policies to the new guidelines by the end of 2025.

Our expert team for open science – Bojan Macan, Head of the Center for Scientific Information, and Jadranska Stojanovski, Senior Librarian at the Center for Scientific Information and Associate Professor at the Department of Information Sciences, University of Zadar – responded to OpenAIRE's questions about the practice and support for open science in Croatia.

The Open Research Europe (ORE) platform, operated by the European Commission, has been accepted for indexing in the Scopus database, even in its early stages. ORE is an innovative open-access platform with post-publication peer review, dedicated to research and projects funded under the Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe programs. The platform's goal is to provide researchers with a high-quality and intuitive space for free and transparent publication of their work in line with the European Commission's open science policy. The platform is guided by an international scientific advisory board and was awarded the DOAJ Seal of Approval in 2021 as one of the best practices in open-access publishing. Currently, all the platform's content is indexed in Google Scholar and synchronized with the Zenodo repository to include reviewed papers. It will soon be sent to Inspec as well. Acceptance for indexing in Scopus marks a step towards the even more successful functioning of the Open Research Europe platform.

At first glance, it seems as though progress was made towards opening up datasets for research purposes. Research funders increased support open data management standards and FAIR principles, more and more journals require the posting of foundational research data as appendices at the end of published papers. Datasets areare assigned DOIs to ensure they are always easily discoverable, and such citation methods also boost researchers' impact.

However, in reality it's a different picture. The global science evaluation system does not (yet) value publicly available data as it does articles in journals or books, which can potentially not only slow down but also completely halt the "open data revolution".

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The management and preservation of research data according to FAIR principles are gaining importance, occupying a strategic position within university institutional work programs. Higher education institutions across Europe and the world recognize that proper research data management (RDM) is crucial to keeping up with the digital transition of scientific production and knowledge dissemination, while also promoting a better understanding and acceptance of open research processes, known as open science. The European project "Fostering FAIR data practices in Europe" (FAIRsFAIR), aimed at developing and providing practical solutions to support the implementation and use of FAIR principles throughout the lifecycle of research data, also seeks to assist higher education institutions in integrating these principles into their curriculum and programs.

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