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Water science must be Open Science

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Since water is a common good, the outcome of water-related research should be accessible to everyone. Since Open Science is more than just open access research articles, journals must work with the research community to enable fully open and FAIR science

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Fig. 1: The many elements of Open Science.

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Acknowledgements

We would like to acknowledge all our colleagues and collaborators who have collectively helped stimulate many of the thoughts and reflections contained in this article. Specifically, E.L.S wishes to thank Mingxun Wang and Pieter Dorrestein (both GNPS) for providing the MAAST example to add a nice carrot to this article. S.J.S. acknowledges help by Remko Nijzink and the Swiss Data Science Center in exploring the Renku platform. E.L.S. and S.J.S. both acknowledge financial support by the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR) ATTRACT programme for projects A18/BM/12341006 and A16/SR/11254288, respectively.

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    Stanislaus J. Schymanski

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