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Interview with Rusty Speidel, Marketing Director at the Center for Open Science (COS).
Open research is about more than open access. It is about making all aspects of the research process open to all possible interested parties.
PeerJ will be indexing one of their flagship open access journals, PeerJ Computer Science, with ScienceOpen.
Labfolder GmbH and the Max Planck Society announced today a licensing agreement to provide up to 11,000 scientists with labfolder’s laboratory data management digital platform
Philosophers could help policy makers to ask the right questions. But to give this practical help, academic philosophy must take lessons from open science.
First report and recommendations on the European Open Science Cloud.
Open Knowledge International is delighted to announce the launch of the public preview beta version of OpenTrials at a panel session on ‘Fostering Open Science in Global Health’.
Failing to record the version of any piece of software or hardware, overlooking a single parameter, or glossing over a restriction on how to use another researcher's code can lead you astray.
Last month the United Nations released a report with recommendations on how to improve innovation and access to health technologies.
A voluntary commitment to the values of openness and transparency in science.
This article describes some of the ways that identifiers can help to unlock the potential of open research.
NIH wants to expand the sharing of summary data from clinical trials, such as test results being reviewed here at NIH’s clinical center.
'Reproducibility editor' Victoria Stodden explains the growing movement to make code and data available to others
Reproducible, transparent and reliable science.
We present a set of computing tools and techniques that every researcher can and should adopt. These recommendations synthesize inspiration from our own work, from the experiences of the thousands of people who have taken part in Software Carpentry and Data Carpentry workshops over the past six years, and from a variety of other guides. Unlike some other guides, our recommendations are aimed specifically at people who are new to research computing.
Many researchers are positive about the new, burgeoning science culture, but they still hesitate to enter into an open exchange of knowledge. There are many reasons why – such as a lack of knowledge about data management and the fear of intellectual property theft.
The giant journal company said it was merely protecting its own proprietary system. But a wave of critics on social media said they were suspicious of its motives.
A contribution to the open innovation, open science, open to the world agenda 2016.
Science is a big thing, but changing it relies on simple decisions made by individual researchers.
Richard Morey on thinking about evidence, selling dog food, and how individual scientist can deal with the crisis in the social sciences.
Through highlighting six recent advances in research infrastructure, this whitepaper seeks to recast how we think about metadata - not as a series of static records, but as objects that move between systems and organizations.
Open source now runs the world. But it still faces problems
The OpenTrialsFDA team was selected as a finalist for the Open Science Prize.
Senator Elizabeth Warren called on researchers to make public data they collect while testing drugs and medical devices on patients. Others disagree.
Researcher who spent months chasing permission to republish online data sets urges others to read up on the law.
A new “papers service” for social science content was recently launched and is capitalizing on concerns over the sale of a long time preprint server by a commercial publisher.
The European Academies, including the Royal Society, have published a joint statement.
This guide covers three major topics in open science (data, code, and publications) and offers practical advice as well as highlighting advantages of adopting more open research practices.
A literature review demonstrating that open research is associated with increases in citations, media attention, potential collaborators, job opportunities, and funding opportunities.
