6. Conclusions: Next steps

At Wiley, we believe that open research is not just the future of research communications; it is the here and now [8]. Publishers are fundamentally service providers for researchers, whether those researchers are acting as authors, peer reviewers, editors or readers. Our careful implementation of open research practices, including data-sharing policies and open data badges, is intended to help researchers adopt new practices and to benefit from extra impact. We are excited about seeing the results of this work in terms of published data availability statements, and data citations. Looking further ahead we intend to measure the success of our “Expects Data Sharing” policy implementation, and to measure publication of data availability statements and data citations. With this information, we’ll be able to celebrate adoption of new practices by the research communities we work with and serve, and showcase researchers from those communities leading in open research.