We question the choice of the padlock and dagger illustration you used to open the discussion by Stephan Lewandowsky and Dorothy Bishop ('Don't let transparency damage science' Nature 529, 459–461; 2016). To us, this falsely implies that the article is about open access to journal publications and, by its association with the title, that open-access publishing presents a threat to science.

The authors send no such scary message, which calls attention to the more general concepts of openness and transparency in providing access to original research data.