Open Science is getting popular among universities and other research facilities in Germany like in institutions of Leibniz Association, Fraunhofer Society, Helmholtz Association, Max Planck Society and others that together build the Alliance of Science Organisations in Germany (http://www.dfg.de/en/dfg_profile/alliance/index.html). In particular declarations like "Open Access policies" are passed and currently, universities are implementing "Open Data policies", for example target="_blank"  href="http://www.uni-kiel.de/download/pm/2015/2015-408-leitlinie-forschungsdaten.pdf">Kiel University,target="_blank"  href="http://www.uni-kiel.de/download/pm/2015/2015-408-leitlinie-forschungsdaten.pdf"> Humboldt University, target="_blank"  href="https://data.uni-bielefeld.de/de/policy">University of Bielefeld .These Bielefeld, and University of Göttingen.These  activities can be a first step of promoting Open Science within the scientific landscape and to overcome the problem of scientists' reservation towards sharing, which is mentioned several times as important challenge in interviews in Ten Tales of Drivers & Barriers in Data Sharing, named ODE Project.

Apparently, the currency of science are papers in highly ranked journals [Beleg???], no longer with restriction to STM diciplines. However, science consists of more than only one type of research output and the current practice of considering only quantity (versus quality) [same researchers need to write more and in addition review more] is not sustainable.