National Academies present a guide for “open science”

"Scientific journal publishing, academic reward systems, and the lack of a common, interoperable data infrastructure are some of the obstacles that stand in the way of “open science.” So says a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, which examined free access to all the products of research, including scholarly publications, the data that result from research, and the methodologies, including algorithms, that were used to generate the data. The committee that wrote the report, chaired by Alexa McCray of Harvard University, started with the assumption that open access from the outset of the research process is the most desirable state. The entirety of the research process, from its beginning through archiving of results, data, and tools used, should be made more open—a concept the report calls “open science by design.”..."