Typical activities of researchers during and around the research cycle. Openness may refer to communicating research results or the process during which they were acquired. CC BY Cameron Neylon, modified.
Typically, these are all separate documents, though with considerable overlap in their content
On Wikimedia platforms, such activities are performed in public in a participatory manner by default. Why not in research?
Wikimedia projects can serve as prototypes for open approaches more generally, including in research contexts
Open science - often used interchangeably with the more encompassing term open research - is concerned with making scientific research more transparent and more efficient. A central aspect to it is to provide open access to scientific information, especially to the research published in scholarly journals and to the underlying data , much of which traditional science tends to hide away. Other aspects are more open forms of collaboration and engagement with a wider audience, including citizen scientists and the public at large.