Open research

A stop-motion video arguing that open research increases collaboration with the general public and their access to the information produced from the research as compared to traditional science

Open research is research that is openly accessible by others. Those who publish research in this way are often concerned with making research more transparent, more collaborative, more wide-reaching, and more efficient. Open research aims to make both research methods and the resulting data freely available, often via the internet, in order to support reproducibility and, potentially, massively distributed research collaboration. In this regard, it is related to both open source software and citizen science.

Especially for research that is scientific in nature, open research may be referred to as open science.^[1]^[2] However, the term can also implicate research done in fields as varied as the social sciences, the humanities, mathematics, engineering and medicine.

^ For an overview, see "Reinventing Discovery" by Michael Nielsen, Princeton University Press (21 October 2011), ISBN 0-691-14890-2
^ Woelfle, Michael; Olliaro, Piero; Todd, Matthew H. (23 September 2011). "Open science is a research accelerator". Nature Chemistry. 3 (10): 745–748. Bibcode:2011NatCh...3..745W. doi:10.1038/nchem.1149. PMID 21941234.

[1] For an overview, see "Reinventing Discovery" by Michael Nielsen, Princeton University Press (21 October 2011), ISBN 0-691-14890-2

[2] Woelfle, Michael; Olliaro, Piero; Todd, Matthew H. (23 September 2011). "Open science is a research accelerator". Nature Chemistry. 3 (10): 745–748. Bibcode:2011NatCh...3..745W. doi:10.1038/nchem.1149. PMID 21941234.

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