Advantages

Open science is a new paradigm that entails several benefits for research:

• Increasing the visibility, reputation, and public recognition
• Allowing authors to retain ownership of rights and set the conditions of use
• Promoting the rigor and quality of the research
• Improving transparency of the evaluation and monitoring of the research. Increases the credibility
• Solving the current social issues
• Giving back to society the investment that research entails
• Ensuring long term access, aside from commercial initiatives
• Contributing to the economic and social development  
• Getting a collaborative and non-competitive science
• Accelerating the innovation and increasing the efficiency
• Developing more research with the same data
• Promoting the citizenship participation in the research, increasing the confidence in the research
• Contributing to the knowledge democratization