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Comparing to this familiar concept Open Access, Open Science is more broad. It includes open access (OA) publications, preprinted databases, and the establishment of freely accessible institutional databases for researchers to store research data and share with others, which has the potential to transform the research landscape and it is crucial for all the stakeholders to understand an to be part of the new scientific scenario.
In the workshop Focus on open science celebrated in our university, firstly I really was moved that there are so many people working in this project for a better future of science and have got wonderful results. Like UCL has recognized the leadership of the university in this change of Open Science，and those investigators have investigated the important role of citizens, government, technology and the shift completely the research assessment system. Besides, we have learned many experience in the practice of Open Access which is the first step of the movement of Open Science, that means that we can and we must go far of it.
For me, I have no problem to share data and publications from publicly funded research and I would like to be evaluated in my academic career and my research contribution. But like those problems we have met in OA, many researchers especially for those young researchers can´t get enough resource to achieve that, so the government, the universities even the society have to get consensus on this point and responsible to change the system.
About citizen science, actually, I never thought about using it in my research before but after the workshop, I recognize that it is not only benefit for my own research also it is an effort to the Open Science.
As a student, maybe a future researcher, I believe that I will promote this movement. I from China, and I know that there are some people in there working in it and the government also show their commitment, but as we all know, the closed internet in China has affected the development of science, but I believe that more and more researchers are willing to participate in this movement.
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My opinion is that tax payers have the right of finding a return on investment somehow, in indirect terms like Global Peace, or direct terms like Jobs, and so, this will be easier to share between Research Institutions from Countries subscribing UN SDG Agenda, and demonstrating compliance to it.
It’s true that Open Science has a real chance to become “the standard way of sharing data and papers” in some years, but there are some public funded research works managing sensitive information should not be shared in “non controlled sharing environments/platforms”.
Sharing data is also a way of allowing fact-checks, of course, and sometimes is necessary to Open Data for going on with further research, and so, gaining credibility on the results. For these cases, not compromising society directly or further return on public investment, I think Sharing data and papers makes sense.