<div dir="ltr">Many of the motivations which drive open access are similar to why we want open data in social science research: making one’s research more widely available to the research community and to the wider public, producing more and better research that can be reproduced and verified.<br>
<a href="http://openeconomics.net/2013/02/11/can-we-have-open-data-without-open-access/">http://openeconomics.net/2013/02/11/can-we-have-open-data-without-open-access/</a></div>