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Incentive mechanism to boost open science require proper acknowledgment of open science efforts of researcher and academics. This has to rely on metrics taking into account open science and data-sharing efforts.  As pointed out by the OECD ``the use of new online scholarly (and non-scholarly) tools to disseminate results offers  the possibility to develop and employ new metrics to capture different types of impacts of scientific  outputs. These new or alternative metrics are often referred to as altmetrics (\href{http://altmetrics.org/manifesto/}{Priem et al. 2010})''.  \begin{quote}  Policy trends in Open Science:  -\textbf{ Mandatory rules} are often implemented in the form 2010}).''   This is particularly important as ``Currently, measures  of requirements in research grant agreements,  or academic impact focus on publications  in some cases academic journals, while sharing  (publishing) data is generally not taken into account. Researchers  are defined in national strategies or institutional policy frameworks.  - \textbf{Incentive mechanisms} may take the form rewarded for publishing results  obtained from analysis  of financial support to cover open access data sets, rather than for  publishingcosts or  therelease of  data sets. They sets themselves. This  may also be create  situations  in the form of proper acknowledgment of open  science efforts of which  researchers and academics, for instance are willing to protect their  data set citations or career advancement  mechanisms partly based on metrics that take into account open science or data-sharing efforts. sets rather than publish them.''  - \textbf{Enablers} include for example infrastructure developed to share articles or data; initiatives  undertaken to develop an open science culture; amendments to the legal framework to make them  increasingly open science-friendly; or development of the skills necessary for researchers to share  and reuse the research outputs produced by others. Data management guidelines for universities  and public research institutes also can constitute an enabling condition.   \end{quote}  Information and communication technologies, however, are accelerating the speed at which scientific  results are diffused. The use of new online scholarly (and non-scholarly) tools to disseminate results offers  the possibility to develop and employ new metrics to capture different types of impacts of scientific  outputs.  These new or alternative metrics are often referred to as altmetrics (Priem et al., 2010). Proponents of  alternative metrics consider that traditional peer-review fails to limit the volume of published research, and  therefore to adequately filter and assess the quality of scientific output.   In the United Kingdom, open access constitutes a key component of the Department for Business, 

open access policies  The OECD methodology supports countries in conducting national impact  assessment exercises and identifying metrics to support the business cases for open government data (i.e. what to  measure, why and how).  Open science can be supported by defining the right incentive mechanisms to promote open  behaviours in science and research. Incentive mechanisms may target different aspects of research  processes, including for example financial support to open science efforts, acknowledgment and reward of