Rethinking How We Publish to Support Open Science - Kiermer - 2025 - Learned Publishing - Wiley Online Library

"Summary

• We have the opportunity to support and enable open science by showcasing and enabling the reuse of a much broader range of contributions to research.
• Diversity of participants in knowledge creation and reuse enables a multiplicity of perspectives, which is the essence of trustworthy research.
• Obstacles to open science include over-focus on articles and business models based on “fee per published unit”.
• Publishers' contributions to the research enterprise can be maintained while simultaneously transitioning to an open science ecosystem.
• PLOS has embarked on a Research and Design project to define the key elements of a new publishing model anchored in open science principles with an accompanying business model to sustain it...."