Within higher education we sometimes behave as knowledge cuckoo's; we only make our knowledge products known through publishers and not through our own institutes. But as a knowledge institute, we also have to claim our products and showcase them.
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Jan Steyaert
Open Access of data generates new science.
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Associate professor department Chemical Engineering and Chemistry
Eindhoven University of Technology

Nico Sommerdijk

Associate professor department Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, Eindhoven University of Technology

Dr. N.A.J.M. (Nico) Sommerdijk recently published a paper about his research in Science, together with others. He explains why Science wasn’t able to publish the underlying research data of his paper and why he published his data open access with the 3TU.Datacentrum. Now: “Everybody can access [the data set] directly with one click of your computer mouse. People may use the same data set for things that we were not looking for and so generate new science with the same scientific data set.”

 

 "Open Access of data generates new science."