Our fundamental belief as a journal is that science benefits from openness, whether it be open access to the published literature, to data and materials, or to work that has not yet been peer reviewed in the form of preprints. Our belief in openness also motivated us to offer our authors the option to publish their peer-review reports alongside their papers, a service we have been offering since January 2016. We have already published the reviewer comments and author responses of over 2000 papers, whose authors have opted in to our transparent peer review scheme.