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[[File:Open science pillars.png|thumb|upright=1.35|Open Science infrastructure is one of the four pillars of Open Science in the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science (2021).]]

'''Open Science Infrastructure''' (or ''open scholarly infrastructure'') is an [[information infrastructure]] that supports the open sharing of scientific productions such as publications, datasets, metadata or code. In November 2021 the [[Unesco]] recommendation on Open Science describe it as "shared research infrastructures that are needed to support [[open science]] and serve the needs of different communities".{{sfn|UNESCO|2021}}

Open science infrastructures are a form of scientific infrastructure (also called ''[[cyberinfrastructure]]'', ''[[e-Science]]'' or ''e-infrastructure'') that support the production of open knowledge. Beyond the management of common resources, they are frequently structured as community-led initiatives with a set collective norms and governance regulations, which makes them also a form of [[knowledge commons]]. The definition of open science infrastructures usually exclude privately owned scientific infrastructures run by leading commercial publishers. Conversely it may include actors not always characterized as scientific infrastructures that play a critical role in the ecosystem of open science, such as publishing platforms in open access (''open scholarly communication service'').