<div dir="ltr">Open science is vitally important to accelerating the pace of discovery and the continued funding of academic research. At least 80% of academic research is publicly, or charitably funded. It's therefore obvious that research should be done in a manner that maximizes the return-on-investment; encouraging sharing, re-use, and collaboration for overall gain. <b><font color="#ff0000">In 'closed' science, fewer people can read the publication (it's paywalled) and no one outside of the original author group can re-use the data or the code used to generate the results. The closed science model leads to deeply inefficient, slower, harder, progress.</font></b> Researchers may overlook their peers papers simply because they don't have access to them. Likewise, researchers waste immense time and resources re-generating the same data or software functionality because other researchers didn't/won't share the original data/code.<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">
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