cboettig/openscience-whitepaper: Open Science: Balancing Individual Incentives with Common Good

This release is a fully re-written draft relative to v0.1.

This whitepaper was written in response to seven questions on open science issued by invitation to the NSF/NIH ImagineU Conference (http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/Conferences/ImagineU/) to be held on March 8-9, 2017. These answers reflect my own experiences and opinions at the time of writing, and focus primarily though not exclusively on examples from my own field of ecology and evolutionary biology. This is a working paper whose primary goal is to spark discussion on the topic, and may continue to be revised as my own views evolve and opportunity permits. In this paper, I introduce my view of open science and discuss how this manifests in my own work, highlighting some of the challenges and tensions that arise between individual incentives and the common potential for open science. I then close with a few recommendations going forward.