Why openness makes research infrastructure resilient

Key Points 

• Open research infrastructure provides the building blocks of scientific progress, which must be available to everyone, with no barriers to access. 

• Organizations enabling open research infrastructure must endorse these fundamental principles: equity, value, trust, interoperability, sustainability and community governance. 

• Finding ways to invite co-creation and community participation engenders a strong sense of ‘buy-in’ and is therefore essential to developing successful research infrastructure.