Science as an open enterprise – Final report by The Royal Society
Science as an open enterprise - Final report by The Royal SocietyDownload to the final report as pdf here.
Six key areas for action are highlighted in the report:
- Scientists need to be more open among themselves and with the public and media.
- Greater recognition needs to be given to the value of data gathering, analysis and communication.
- Common standards for sharing information are required to make it widely usable.
- Publishing data in a reusable form to support findings must be mandatory.
- More experts in managing and supporting the use of digital data are required.
- New software tools need to be developed to analyse the growing amount of data being gathered.