The era of Open Science is upon us, and the MSE community must generate a response that best suits the needs of not only the individual researcher but the larger community including academia, industry, and government. It’s becoming clearer with the advance of materials research that supporting data can no longer be kept invisible from a technical publication. We have highlighted the key issues that will need to be considered as the community develops an approach to data archiving supporting publications. Charting the right course will take time and much effort as it is quite complex. Fortunately, other technical disciplines have begun a path for us from which we can learn and capitalize. We have outlined some suggested community actions that would help pave the way in setting a common approach to archiving of materials data.