What if we had not Open Science? The value and potential of openness

Keynote at AURA Open Access & Repository Session, part of the 17th International Conference ERIS 2025, special track "Reimagining Research Value in the Age of Open Science", Plovdiv, Sept. 29, 2025 Everyone is talking about Open Science, but sometimes we miss its real value, or we see it as the umptenth administrative burden. In this talk, we shall compare research (and life) in a closed world versus an open one, focusing on the potential to create a more collaborative, inclusive and efficient research environment for the benefit of science and society, avoiding "openwashing" and really trying to make Open Science "the new normal".