For centuries, science has driven progress, but access to it has been limited by costs, bureaucracy, and other factors. Open science aims to remove these barriers by making research free and transparent and adapting the way of making science to the 21st century, where the TCP/IP protocols of the Internet and the World Wide Web, along with the expansion of markup languages, the Semantic Web, etc, have enabled collaborative research (David, Besten & Schroeder, 2006). In this context, open science is understood as more than just a concept -it represents a movement that seeks to transform how knowledge is created and shared.
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