Open research data is key to open science | Wonkhe | Comment

"‘The evidence for the benefits of sharing research data is overwhelming’ – the words of Ian Hrynaszkiewicz, Head of Data Publishing at Springer Nature, in his Wonkhe blog last month. It’s a powerful statement, and one that will likely be echoing around the halls of Westminster after the recent hearing of the House of Commons Science and Technology Select Committee on Research Integrity. Sharing data, methods, and software can all support research integrity by ensuring research can be reproduced and by creating transparency. Being able to verify and build on research results can help accelerate research and science at scale, but in order to make this possible there has to be access to data, for reuse – and the road towards open access can be full of hurdles."