Overcoming the challenges of open science

While the benefits of open science are enormous, the road to its full implementation is not without challenges.
  • Culture change and incentives: Changing traditional academic norms and reward systems to ones that value and reward open scholarly practices (including not only open access publications) requires additional resources
  • Ethical and legal considerations: Data privacy, intellectual property and complex licensing are important considerations that require clear guidance and policies
  • Resource requirements: Supporting open science requires a strong infrastructure (e.g. reliable data repositories), training and support staff such as data curators and science librarians
  • Data quality and curation challenges: Ensuring that open data is of high quality, well documented and suitable for re-use

Overcoming the challenges of open science

While the benefits of open science are enormous, the road to its full implementation is not without challenges.
  • Culture change and incentives: Changing traditional academic norms and reward systems to ones that value and reward open scholarly practices (including not only open access publications) requires additional resources
  • Ethical and legal considerations: Data privacy, intellectual property and complex licensing are important considerations that require clear guidance and policies
  • Resource requirements: Supporting open science requires a strong infrastructure (e.g. reliable data repositories), training and support staff such as data curators and science librarians
  • Data quality and curation challenges: Ensuring that open data is of high quality, well documented and suitable for re-use