![]() ![]() While open-source publishing is making communication about science more accessible, there is often a divide between the content of a publication and the reproducibility of the methods described therein-that is, in many publications, technical details that are required for others to repeat the work are missing. (3) Perhaps motivated by Newton’s broad shoulders, authors are gravitating toward these mechanisms, recognizing that (as indicated in the ACS Omega “Vision Statement”) open-source publications make science “accessible beyond the traditional academic readership,” including “readers in industry, at policy institutions, the media, and the general public.” (4) Furthermore, a growing number of researchers are supplementing traditional publication by submitting to preprint archives, including the well-known arXiv (physics, mathematics, computer science over 1.2 million articles since 1991, 10 000+ submitted monthly), (1) as well as the newer bioRxiv (biology), (2) and the recently announced ACS chemRxiv (chemistry). With this in mind, scientists are increasingly choosing to publish their research in open-access journals, including American Chemical Society (ACS) titles, such as ACS Central Science and ACS Omega, and journals from many other publishers, including the Public Library of Science (PLOS) and eLife Sciences. Thus, the advancement of science depends on discovering, accessing, and building upon the research of others, tasks which are facilitated in our current world via the Internet. ![]() The enterprise of scientific research is succinctly described by a quote made famous by Sir Isaac Newton: “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants”-that is, any given scientific advance represents the sum of activities that are themselves built on the foundation of past efforts by other researchers. ![]()
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