Open Science isn’t just a values choice. It’s an economic one.
We are sharing a new independent report by Technopolis Group on the economic benefits of #OpenScience and what drives value when research outputs are designed for reuse at scale: https://plos.io/4sjPnZw
A few headline takeaways:
🔸 Biggest gains come from reuse beyond publications (data, code, software, workflows)
🔸Efficiency gains reduce duplication
🔸Open infrastructures enable innovation and spillovers
🔸Costs and benefits are unevenly distributed across the research ecosystem
PLOS believes in a better future where science is open to all, for all. We are redefining publishing by demonstrating that new solutions are feasible and deliver tangible benefits for the entire research enterprise.
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And closed "science" is not really science at all.
Proprietary software is a barrier to replication. Libre/open software is much more likely to remain available over time for replication or reanalysis of results.
This is not a trivial benefit when academic fraud is increasing.
Publish the raw data as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_magnetic_resonance_imaging
25-40% of fMRI research pre 2010 is worthless without the data available for reanalysis.
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