  Imagine an online work environment where researchers have direct and
immediate access to myriad data sources and tools and data management
resources, useful throughout the research lifecycle. This is our vision for the
next generation of the Dataverse Network: an Open Science Platform (OSP). For
the first time, researchers would be able to seamlessly access and create
primary and derived data from a variety of sources: prior research results,
public data sets, harvested online data, physical instruments, private data
collections, and even data from other standalone repositories. Researchers
could recruit research participants and conduct research directly on the OSP,
if desired, using readily available tools. Researchers could create private or
shared workspaces to house data, access tools, and computation and could
publish data directly on the platform or publish elsewhere with persistent,
data citations on the OSP. This manuscript describes the details of an Open
Science Platform and its construction. Having an Open Science Platform will
especially impact the rate of new scientific discoveries and make scientific
findings more credible and accountable.
