The Legacy & History of Open Science

"A New View of the Moon" from NASA, here remixed, is marked in the public domain.

Event Details

Creative Commons invites you to explore the legacy and history of Open Science—tracing how a belief in open, accessible, and reusable knowledge grew into a global movement to transform the way research is shared and built upon. The promise of open science is that openly available knowledge accelerates discovery, enabling researchers to collaborate more effectively, build on prior work, and advance new innovations and understandings of our world. This panel will reflect on the origins of the movement, the milestones that shaped its growth, and the communities and infrastructures that continue to sustain it today.

Together, we’ll explore the role CC played in the early development of open science through initiatives such as Science Commons and the Budapest Open Access Initiative, and consider how that work continues to influence today’s research ecosystem. As CC celebrates its 25th Anniversary, the conversation will also look ahead to the future of open science and the role openness can play in creating a more collaborative and equitable scientific commons.

Meet the speakers

  • Melissa Hagemann

    Melissa Hagemann has been at the forefront of the Access to Knowledge movement for over twenty years. She managed the Open Society Foundations’ work to define open access to research through the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) and went on to support the development of the global open access movement.…

  • John Wilbanks

    John Wilbanks is a researcher, entrepreneur, and advocate whose career has spanned nonprofit, academic, and commercial sectors, all focused on making scientific and healthcare data more accessible and useful. Early in his career he founded and led to acquisition Incellico, a knowledge graph company serving the pharmaceutical industry, before serving…

  • Monica Granados

    Director of Open Science

    Dr. Monica Granados is the Director of Open Science where she leads CC’s Open Science Portfolio working with researchers, librarians, consortia, policy makers, and other stakeholders in scholarly communication to equip them with education and training about our licences so that they can implement open science practices and increase access…

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