Can open science follow open access? - Journal of Biological Chemistry
peter.suber's bookmarks 2021-12-26
Summary:
"What does the immediate future hold in store? The implementation of open access raises an equally important aspect of science publishing in 2021 and beyond – open science. The basic premise of open science is that not only should articles be freely accessible to all, but that the primary data contained within them should also be readily available. JBC certainly adheres to this principle, in so much that JBC policy states that all primary data should be available upon request from the authors. The open science movement has gained significant traction over the last decade, and the basic tenets are that articles and data should be published in the fully open access model. Similarly, all primary data, both ‘negative’ and ‘positive’, should be deposited in publicly-accessible repositories, free to all. This is not a particularly heretical concept, after all at JBC and in many other journals, large data sets such as proteomics, RNAseq, functional genomics, and structural data must all be deposited into one of many public repositories as a condition of article acceptance. Why should this not apply to all primary data?