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class="ltx_title_section">Introduction

Why Open Science is important and how it benefits the research process
Open class="ltx_title_section">Introduction
Open  Science is understood as open access to all scientific information, such as literature, data and software.
enhance accessibility, visibility, software. Benefits of Open Science are for instance faster communication of research findings and higher visibility in the research community ()
,  quality control and long-term availability

benefits for
- researchers: Findings are openly distributed and are accessible to anyone, this means easier distribution of research results, easier collaboration due to open data
data
-  scientific institutions: Preservation and availability of research results inspite of highly mobile scientists
- science: anyone can participate, findings are shared and distributed broadly, less duplicate studies saves money, better reproducability which makes science better


How better
                 
Groups of benefit from personal to collective benefit
ResearcherInstitutionScience
visibility of research findingspreservationbetter reproducability
accessibility of researchavailability of research results inspite of highly mobile scientistsaccessibility of research
easier collaborationeasier collaboration



How  does Open Science at ZALF differ from universities? small institution compared to universities (financial differences? Library and data management department do not do research but are service facilities. (obligations of researchers not only towards ZALF but also towards other institutions). Leibniz Association inspires ZALF with guidelines and tools like LeibnizOpen.

What do we want to achieve (at ZALF)?
easier collaboration between research groups within ZALF and with other institutions (less beaurocracy with data sharing agreements, collaborations with big institutions are complicated, who is allowed to sign contracts?)
higher visibility of research output
higher importance of research data as lots of data are produced at ZALF. Due to high mobility of researchers and the age distribution among ZALF employees it is important to think of how to discover data available at ZALF and  their long-term storage. At the moment, the currency of science are papers in highly ranked journals, therefore they are properly archived/stored (Kann man hier von Archiv sprechen?). But science consists of more than papers and the current practice of focus on quantity (in addition to quality?/ same researchers need to write more and in addition review more) is not sustainable.