The Open Phytoliths Community is an initiative by the International Committee on Open Phytolith Science (ICOPS) that has been created within the International Phytolith Society to work on increasing the knowledge of and implementation of open science practices in phytolith research. 

This committee therefore embraces open science practices in its own work and strives to make everything that it does open and transparent to the phytolith community. We aim to engage with the phytolith community regularly from the very start and we encourage phytolith researchers to get involved in the training, seminars, discussions and working initiatives that we will be doing.

The Open Phytoliths Community is an initiative by the International Committee on Open Phytolith Science (ICOPS) that has been created within the International Phytolith Society to work on increasing the knowledge of and implementation of open science practices in phytolith research. 

Open Science is an approach that aims to transform research by making it more reproducible, transparent, reusable, collaborative, accountable and accessible to society. Open Science emcompasses many different practices such as open data, open methods, open source software, open hardware, open access publishing, citizen science, open educational resources and equity, diversity and inclusion.

This committee therefore embraces open science practices in its own work and strives to make everything that it does open and transparent to the phytolith community. We aim to engage with the phytolith community regularly from the very start and we encourage phytolith researchers to get involved in the training, seminars, discussions and working initiatives that we will be doing.

We have a number of other initiatives such as the FAIR Phytolith Project to develop FAIR guidelines for phytolith research and we are also developing open publishing guidelines.