Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)
Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)
The Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO) is an independent research institute of the Flemish government that underpins and evaluates biodiversity policy and management by means of applied scientific research, data and knowledge sharing. INBO aims to work as much as possible according to the methods of open and reproducible research – Open Science for short – in order to achieve solid and demonstrable scientific quality. INBO adopted an Open Data policy in 2014 and an Open Access policy in 2017. From 2018 onwards, the institute has developed “Open Science Goals” for the organisation. These goals detail how INBO wants to apply Open Science throughout the research cycle: from design, through data collection, storage, management and analysis to publication, archiving and encouraging reuse.