How to become an open science champion
Five tips for your journey from adopter to leader
Sebastián Ayala Ruano, a PhD student at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Barcelona, keenly remembers his first steps in open science. Slowly pouring over guidelines – ‘everything was in English’, he recalls – he couldn’t help noticing how these principles were not commonly applied in his workplace.
Many chemists may face similar challenges, in a field notoriously timid about embracing open practices.