Open science: what is it and what can it be?

Since the early modern scientific revolution, publicness has served as an infrastructure and framework for open and free scientific discussion. And, in the last decade of the previous century, the Internet revolution did provide the means to enhance and broaden the public nature of science.

However, academic careers in Italy depend on bibliometric indicators set by the government that work as evaluation proxies, These indicators have promoted commercial publishing oligopolies that exploit and mislead researchers, because the purpose of research is no longer discovering the secrets of nature, but rather to try to fit the indicators by being published (possibly in Nature) and being cited.

Do young scholars have the freedom to conduct research responsibly? And if not, then who?