Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics (SCOAP³) is an international collaboration that aims to make scientific publications in high energy physics open access. Launched in 2014 under the leadership of CERN, the initiative is supported by a consortium of more than 44 countries and more than 3,000 libraries, research institutions and funders. The basic operation of SCOAP³ is that the funds that academic libraries and research institutions spend on journal subscriptions are pooled centrally and used by publishers to publish articles as open access. In this way, authors can publish without paying article processing charges (APCs), while readers can access the content free of charge. In Turkey, this cooperation continues with the support of TÜBİTAK ULAKBİM.

Open data refers to data that can be freely accessed, used, reprocessed, and shared by anyone without copyright or other legal restrictions. Sharing data in this manner provides major advantages in terms of transparency, efficiency, reproducibility, and collaboration in research.

Taking into account the global benefits of open science, TÜBİTAK encourages the public dissemination of publications and data generated within the scope of the projects it supports. The policy aims to enhance access to research outputs, promote transparency and traceability, and strengthen international collaborations.

TÜBİTAK Open Science Policy was evaluated and approved by TÜBİTAK Board of Directors on March 14, 2019.