Editing Openness (section)

== In science ==
{{Main article|Open science}}
[[Open science]] refers to the practice of allowing peer-reviewed research articles to be available online free of charge and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.<ref name=Suber>{{cite web|last=Suber|first=Peter|title=Open Access Overview|url=http://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm|access-date=1 May 2014}}</ref>  Benefits of this approach include: accelerated discovery and progress as researchers are free to use and build on the findings of others,<ref>{{cite web|title=The Case for Open Access|url=http://www.plos.org/open-access/|access-date=1 May 2014}}</ref> giving back to the public as much research is paid for with public funds,<ref name=Suber2>{{cite web|last=Suber|first=Peter|title=The taxpayer argument for open access|url=http://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/09-04-03.htm#taxpayer|work=SPARC Open Access Newsletter, issue #65|access-date=1 May 2014}}</ref> and greater impact for one's work due to [[open access]] articles being accessible to a bigger audience.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Harnad|first=Steven|author2=Tim Brody|title=Comparing the Impact of Open Access (OA) vs. Non-OA Articles in the Same Journals|journal=D-Lib Magazine|volume=10|url=http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/260207/1/06harnad.html|access-date=1 May 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161213115319/http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/260207/1/06harnad.html|archive-date=13 December 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>