Turning FAIR into reality: Review - Hill - 2019 - Learned Publishing - Wiley Online Library

"Key points

• Implementation of FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable) offers significant return on investment (ROI) but requires major changes in research culture, incentives, and substantial funding, and implementation is hindered by the need to coordinate across European Union's member states.
• FAIR is constituted by data objects and a wider technical and data ecosystem.
• Publishers’ role is broad but prescribed in this report – although there may be business opportunities.
• While the continued validity of non‐open data is acknowledged, the report recognizes that ROI is maximized where data are both FAIR and open...."