Introduction

Open Science is understood as open access to all scientific information, such as literature, data and software. Benefits of Open Science are for instance faster communication of research findings and higher visibility in the research community href="#Fournier_2012">(Fournier, 2012)>

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,  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

- 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

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