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%The term “open science” was coined by economist Paul David (2003) in an attempt to describe the
%properties of scientific goods generated by the public sector and in opposition to the perceived extension of
%intellectual property rights into the area of information goods.
Economists %Economists consider scientific knowledge
generated %generated by public research as a public good, which means that everyone can make use of that knowledge
at %at no additional cost once it is made public, generating higher social returns.
%This thinking is not altogether
%new. As far back as 1942, Robert King Merton, an American sociologist of science, described a set of
%ideals that characterised modern science and to which scientists are bound. First and foremost is the notion
%of common ownership of scientific discoveries, according to which the substantive findings of science are
%seen as a product of social collaboration and are assigned to the community.
Scientists’ %Scientists’ claims to intellectual property are limited to recognition and esteem.
While %While this ideal-based system has functioned in part through the current system of peer review and
subscription-based %subscription-based scholarly publication, the ICT revolution has shaken, if not the underlying ideals, at
least %least the system of scientific production and diffusion. Open science in the information age espouses the
notion %notion that knowledge created from public research has public good characteristics that go beyond the
concept %concept of the “commons” developed in the 18th century, insofar as ICT-enabled access broadens the
possibilities %possibilities to enrich the commons and extend it to a broader range of users.
Open search tools increase the efficiency of research as well as of its diffusion. Greater access to scientific
inputs and outputs can improve the effectiveness and productivity of the scientific and research system, by: