Researchers are creating, gathering and using data in hitherto-unimagined volumes. These vast data resources dramatically increase the capacity of science to infer patterns in phenomena, whether physical, chemical, biological or human, or in the complex systems that are at the heart of most global challenges.
It is in this context that a new paradigm of “open science” has developed, that is more efficient, open to all, integrated across disciplines and societally engaged. Its necessary bedrock is:

• that published scientific results should be open access - digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions; and
• that the data acquired by individual scientists and scientific groups should be subject to a default position whereby it is made findable, accessible, interoperable and re-useable (FAIR);

The second of these aims forms the focus of this report and offers profound opportunities. Open research data (ORD) have the potential not only to deliver greater efficiencies in research, but to improve its rigour and reproducibility, to enhance its impact, and to increase public trust in its results.

Last modified

• 10/19/2024

Organisation

• Open Research Data Task Force

Subject

• Research data
• Open research
• Open data

Publisher

• Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Language

• eng

Identifier

• hull:17097

Related item publisher

• Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Refereed

• true

Resource type general

• Report