Benefits of Open Science: An Analytical Framework Illustrated with Case Study Evidence from Argentina

VALERIA ARZA; MARIANO FRESSOLI

Expanding Perspectives on Open Science: Communities, Cultures and Diversity in Concepts and Practices

IOS Press

Año: 2017; p. 153 - 173

Doing open science is to collaborate with others in a scientific endeavorand to share the outcomes of the scientific process. However, there are manydimensions of openness. Thus when analyzing concrete open science initiativesone finds a full lot of hybrid forms of openness. We identify and discuss differentelements of open science and their benefits, under the contention that benefits arerelated to how openness is achieved. We propose a bi-dimensional framework tocharacterize openness along research stages, which allows anticipating expectedbenefits. The first dimension accounts for the characteristics of the collaboration,while the second for aspects of access to shared outputs. We illustrate ourframework by discussing four Argentinean open science initiatives.