6. Conclusions: Next steps
At Wiley, we believe that open research is not just the future of
research communications; it is the here and now [8]. Publishers are
fundamentally service providers for researchers, whether those
researchers are acting as authors, peer reviewers, editors or readers.
Our careful implementation of open research practices, including
data-sharing policies and open data badges, is intended to help
researchers adopt new practices and to benefit from extra impact. We are
excited about seeing the results of this work in terms of published data
availability statements, and data citations. Looking further
ahead we intend to measure the success of our “Expects Data Sharing”
policy implementation, and to measure publication of data availability
statements and data citations. With this information, we’ll be able to
celebrate adoption of new practices by the research communities we work
with and serve, and showcase researchers from those communities leading
in open research.