Open Science by Design | The Horizons Tracker

"The EU have produced a number of reports on the topic [of open science], and a recent paper by the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine adds the United States to the mix.  The authors believe that open science should be a fundamental part of any researchers work....

The report begins by highlighting the value open science brings in terms of transparency, reliability and the support for collaboration and subsequently discovery itself.  The reliability issue is particularly important at a time when there are numerous concerns around replicability of research.

They also believe that open science helps to extract greater value from research by allowing data to be reused rather than duplicated.  This openness allows for research to become much more collaborative, with researchers from various disciplines working together on a challenge...."