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Society nowadays is driven by science and technology. Since the beginning of the scientific revolution, we have used scientific advancements to access new lands, build wealth, feed and house an expanding population, extend our lives, improve our health, and, more recently, connect and communicate on a global scale.

The ethics of all supply networks are under pressure from the need for accelerated growth. The effects of pollution and climate change on traditional economies and social structures are extremely significant and include social and political instability, a sharp rise in economic disparity, unstable societies, and mass migration. Our existence is in peril. To meet this issue, a determined push toward a sustainable society is necessary.

To solve issues that are expanding exponentially, we need solutions that are expanding exponentially as well—the kind of growth we have seen in IT and biotech. This kind of increase has not yet materialized. We propose that the infrastructure, knowledge networks, mechanical systems, and plumbing that power the scientific enterprise and support scientific evolution are the key components to finding the solution. Access to science is limited and selective, which delays knowledge and solutions.

Many aspects of science are still exclusive and constrained today. Every year, nearly 2 million scientific articles are published by seven million experts, who spend $2.3 trillion on new research. Sadly, over 80% of these scholarly articles are hidden behind paywalls, making them inaccessible to the general public, including many scientists.

Our scholarly publishing infrastructure is not current. It is incompatible with the sustainability problem we are already experiencing, in which our rate of consumption already vastly outpaces our rate of replacement and repair. Since modern science is a network phenomenon, postponing or limiting access to even one discovery might prevent science from progressing and, as a result, prevent us from finding the sustainable answers we so desperately need. We need to revitalize our infrastructure with fresh approaches to science publications to generate solutions.

This new infrastructure focuses on Open Access publishing and Open Science in general. Open science refers to the practice of all data, resources, and protocols being freely disseminated among researchers and the general public.

Every new technological advancement and scientific discovery can serve as a foundation for future innovation thanks to Open Science. By combining breakthroughs in previously unthinkable ways, open science enables us to tap into the body of knowledge available throughout the globe and the collective wisdom of scientific communities, leading to new understandings, technologies, and sustainable solutions.

We require this new infrastructure to publish and disseminate scientific research as we deal with exponentially increasing sustainability challenges. Many scientific answers already exist, but they must be quickly and openly made available to others, including policymakers, businesses, and scientists who may build on one another’s insights and spur the development of new ones.

Science advances upon itself. All of the solutions can and will be expedited by open science.