Montreal institute going ‘open’ to accelerate science | Science | AAAS

"Guy Rouleau, the director of McGill University’s Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI) and Hospital in Canada, is frustrated with how slowly neuroscience research translates into treatments. 'We’re doing a really shitty job,' he says. 'It’s not because we’re not trying; it has to do with the complexity of the problem.' So he and his colleagues at the renowned institute decided to try a radical solution. Starting this year, any work done there will conform to the principles of the 'open-science' movement—all results and data will be made freely available at the time of publication, for example, and the institute will not pursue patents on any of its discoveries. Although some large-scale initiatives like the government-funded Human Genome Project have made all data completely open, MNI will be the first scientific institute to follow that path, Rouleau says ..."