Frequently asked questions

• Applying open science principles takes too long
• My work/data/idea will get scooped
• It takes too much effort
• Too much work / extra bureaucracy
• It was a lot of time and effort to collect my data!
• IP protection / sensitive data
• Not financially sustainable
• Open education - business of education suffers
• Potentially misinterpreted
• Findings will be misinterpreted or taken out of context when they're openly available. They can only be understood by peers.
• Why would my data be interesting to anyone?
• This won't get me promoted
• I can't share my data because of privacy concerns
• Industry partners want it closed for Intellectual Property
• Costs too much time and money and we don't have that
• If I openly share my data/code, others (with better resources) might use it for commercial benefit (even with CC BY-NC)
• Fear of making public mistakes and there being consequences.
• OS is too big, I have to do everything.
• Noone will re-use it anyways - No benefit for struggling sharing openly
• It is a lot of effort
• Time constraints (how to learn Open Science tools)
• Open Access publishing != quality
• (Some of) Open Science is not peer-reviewed
• It differs when we talk about the Global and International level
• Open science is still replicating the same unequal power structures as closed science