The National Science Centre (NCN) Open Access Policy directly reflects Poland’s policy commitment to ensuring that data resulting from publicly funded research are made openly available under standardized, permissive licenses. The National Science Centre’s 2024 Open Science Policy requires that datasets underlying scientific publications be deposited in open-access repositories and licensed under Creative Commons Public Domain (CC0) terms. This approach guarantees unrestricted access, reuse, and redistribution of data, facilitating transparency, reproducibility, and innovation.
By mandating open licensing, the policy removes legal and administrative barriers to data sharing, ensures compliance with FAIR data principles, and aligns national practice with European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) and Horizon Europe open data requirements.