Benefits

The paradigm shift implied by open science brings numerous benefits for research:

• Increasing visibility, reputation and recognition.
• Allowing authors to retain ownership of rights and set terms of use
• Promoting the rigour and quality of research
• Improve transparency in the evaluation and monitoring of research. Enhance credibility
• Solve current societal problems
• Return the investment in research to society
• Ensuring permanent access, not dependent on commercial initiatives.
• Contribute to economic and social growth
• Achieve collaborative, non-competitive science
• Accelerate innovation and increase efficiency
• To be able to do more research with the same data
• Enable the public to become a stakeholder in research, thereby increasing trust in research
• Contribute to the democratisation of knowledge