Open science: many hands make light work | Jisc

"Open science will be one of the priorities of the Dutch presidency of the European Union in 2016.  As a concept, it’s a natural extension of the open access and open data policies which are already being embedded in UK science practice. Open access seeks to make the results of research generally available; open data promotes sharing and access to one of the key inputs to research ... Open science promotes the sharing and access of all the inputs, products and processes of the scientific process: software, methods, lab notebooks etc.  With stories such as Nature’s recent article on positive clinical trial findings ‘vanishing’ when a requirement to set out their methodology came into play emerging, it’s a hot topic, and one that science can’t afford to ignore.  Five clear motivations behind the open science movement are set out in the book Opening Science: The Evolving Guide on How the Internet is Changing Research, Collaboration and Scholarly Publishing, edited by Sönke Bartling and Sascha Friesike, and are listed below ..."