Co-ordinated action required to boost 'open-science' initiatives – Physics World

"Making research papers, data and methodologies freely accessible for anyone to read and use has gained significant ground in recent years, but several challenges remain to widespread implementation. That’s the conclusion of a new report into “open science” by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM), which calls on universities and publishers to issue new processes to improve how science can be freely accessed. Open science aims to make research papers and data, as well as methodologies such as code or algorithms, freely available. NASEM’s report, Open Science by Design: Realizing a Vision for 21st Century Research, identifies several recent initiatives that have advanced open science – such as citizen-science projects – and highlights the increase in research funded by organizations that require the outputs to be open for everyone to read and use...."