“I propose a philosophy of openness predicated on a process-oriented view, whereby research is understood first and foremost as an effort to foster collective agency, grounded on intimate forms of relationality and trust, among widely diverse individuals and groups – an agency that is often enacted through recourse to various technologies, shared interpretations of research outputs and collaborations with non-human agents. This view of research, grounded in social epistemology and the empirical study of scientific practices, understands openness as the quest for judicious connections among researchers – connections that are always mediated by the exchange of objects and technologies but can never be subsumed to such an exchange, lest science loses the power to support meaningful human interactions with an ever-changing world.”

The Philosophy of Open Science by Sabina Leonelli