The Open Science ecosystem

Abstract

The present study shows the dimensions of open science and the impact of this context on researchers’ lives. The birth of scientific journals in the seventeenth century helped to promote the Scientific Revolution, allowing researchers to communicate through time and space, using the technologies of the time to generate reliable knowledge more quickly and efficiently. Taking advantage of continuous advances in information technology, researchers are moving towards a new, more open scientific ecosystem to accompany the research life cycle. It is in this context that Open Science arises to ensure the free availability and usability of academic publications, data resulting from research and academic methodologies, including codes or algorithms that were used to generate such data.