Open Science is here to stay: the sooner we embrace its principles, the better

"In the last couple of decades, making research output public or using freely available data has become a widespread practice. But although open science is gradually but irreversibly becoming the new standard, much groundwork still needs to be done. To rally more people around the approach and to further integrate it into day-to-day lab work, the hearts and minds of individual scientists have to be conquered as well. That’s what the recent paper titled “Do you speak open science?” by Lennart Martens and Paola Masuzzo of the VIB-UGent Center for Medical Biotechnology is all about: offering a handy open science user guide to researchers, laboratories and the scientific community at large."