title: The varying openness of digital open science tools
abstract: <ns3:p> <ns3:bold>Background</ns3:bold> : Digital tools that support open science practices play a key role in the seamless accumulation, archiving and dissemination of scholarly data, outcomes and conclusions. Despite their integration into open science practices, the providence and design of these digital tools are rarely explicitly scrutinized. This means that influential factors, such as the funding models of the parent organizations, their geographic location, and the dependency on digital 
journal: F1000Research