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GitHub is not a solution to the problem of making scripts and software available as part of the permanent record of a publication. But the folk at Zenodo and Mozilla Science Lab (in collaboration with Figshare) have solutions for you now.
The Office of Research Integrity shares a series of infographics addressing the Responsible Conduct of Research and the handling of research misconduct.
A collection of tools that might help your research if you adopt them early enough in your academic career.
While offering reviewers any form of guidance is better than none, being thorough and creating a reviewer checklist is by far the best way to help reviewers know the expectations of your journal.
Researchers may publish their best work at any point in their careers, a new study reports. This is not the same as success being the result of random forces or just plain “dumb luck.”
Articles published open access are cited more often than articles that are not. End of Story.
Program of OpenCon 2016, a platform for the next generation to learn about Open Access, Open Education, and Open Data, develop critical skills, and catalyze action toward a more open system for sharing the world’s information. Held in Washington, DC on November 12-14, 2016.
Explore our data to see the universities, government bodies and pharmaceutical companies that fail to share their clinical trial results.
Tips from Nature Research editors.
At ATLAS, data sharing and an open, innovative approach to information collaboration has become a fundamental part of this important scientific community.
Last Wednesday, I attended a conference called Publishing Better Science Through Better Data at the Wellcome Collection, organized by Scientific Data.
A recently published book offers guidance for scientists’ career planning.
Blockchain could strengthen science’s verification process, helping to make more research results reproducible, true, and useful, due to its capacity to make digital goods immutable, transparent, and provable.
The arXiv preprint service is trying to answer an age-old question.
The move to providing the underlying data behind research articles has been a major step towards promoting reproducibility, transparency and data re-use. However, analyses of the quality and annota…
A computational guy’s take on the “reproducibility crisis”
For some time now PLOS has discussed new initiatives designed to accelerate research communication.
Over a decade has passed since the Budapest Open Access Initiative and the Berlin Declaration on Open Access. A bystander could be forgiven for thinking that the level of discussion and the apparent differences in position across higher education institutions, publishing houses, laboratories, conference halls, funder headquarters, and government buildings must mean that progress has been limited.
Open research is about more than open access. It is about making all aspects of the research process open to all possible interested parties.
