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Chapter2 OpenScienceandRadicalSolutions forDiversity,EquityandQuality inResearch:ALiteratureReview ofDifferentResearchSchools, PhilosophiesandFrameworksandTheir Potential ImpactonScience andEducation ChristianM.Stracke Abstract Open Science is a phenomenon that can be traced back to theMiddle Ages. In theendof the twentieth centuryand thebeginningof the twenty-first cen- tury,OpenScienceisstronglygrowingduetotheworldwideinternetandrelatednew technologies,toolsandcommunicationchannels.Twocoreobjectives(reliabilityand trust) and threemaincharacteristics (transparency,opennessandreproducibility)of OpenScience canbe identified but it is still too early for a broaddefinition of this growingmovement.Itsgrowthishappeninginmanydisciplinesandindiversefacets. ThisarticlepresentsanoverviewofhowOpenScienceis introducedandestablished in all three science dimensions of research design, processes andpublications. For the future, the benefits are analysed that Open Science is offering, as well as the challenges that it is facing. Itcanbeconcludedthat it isdesirable thatall researchers collaborate inOpen Science.Open Science can improve the different science dis- ciplines, research practices and science in general. In thatway,Open Science can contributetoovercomethepost-truthagethroughincreasingobjectiveandsubjective credibilityof scienceandresearch.And in the long-termperspective,OpenScience can improve thewhole research, education, aswell asour society. C.M.Stracke (B) OpenUniversityof theNetherlands,Heerlen,TheNetherlands e-mail: christian.stracke@ou.nl KoreanNationalOpenUniversity,Seoul,SouthKorea EastChinaNormalUniversity,Shanghai,China ©TheAuthor(s)2020 D.Burgos (ed.),Radical Solutions and Open Science,LectureNotes inEducationalTechnology,https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4276-3_2 17