He understands open science as "the maximum of transparency in scientific work – in all areas". The idea has been about for a long time, he says. But now a new generation is emerging that would like "to make accessibility accessible", and is creating the necessary structures to ensure that open science doesn't remain an empty promise. Elson sees himself as part of this new movement: "It's not just ideological, it's technological". He has launched two websites himself: journalreviewer.org, a collection of progress reports on review procedures, and flexiblemeasures.com, where aggression measurements made by other researchers are painstakingly investigated, and where the lack of standardisation is subjected to critical attention.