Open Science Must Be Promoted by All Means Necessary
Finland aiming to have open access to all scientific publications by 2020.
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Time to Overhaul the Secretive Peer Review Process
Two features of peer review subvert the goals of science: reviews are kept secret and reviewers are usually anonymous, argues Jeffrey S. Flier.
Preparing for Preprints
Preprints are one step towards an Open Science future.
Vote now for the Open Science Prize
Vote now for he Open Science Prize, a collaboration between the Wellcome Trust, the US NIH and the HHMI to unleash the power of open content and data to advance biomedical research and its application for health benefit.
Public voting open
Earlier this year, we announced that six teams had made it through to the final of the Open Science Prize. We’re asking you to help us choose the three most impactful and novel prototypes from among the six finalists.
Publishing Innovations Aim to Highlight Hidden Research Efforts
Open publishing platforms that bring grey literature out of the dark promise to save money, reduce duplication and speed communication
Wellcome Open Research
Wellcome Open Research provides all Wellcome researchers with a place to rapidly publish any results they think are worth sharing.
PhD Starter Kit – Preparing for Life in Academia
A collection of tools that might help your research if you adopt them early enough in your academic career.
Open Peer Review Finds More Takers
Journal experiments and surveys suggest scientists are coming round to the idea of publishing review reports. A few journals, such as PeerJ, the BMJ and F1000Research, already embrace open peer review in various different forms.
Mozilla Science
In 2013, we set out to build Mozilla's first open science program with support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Over three years later, we're pleased to announce a two-year award from the Sloan Foundation to further support that work in advancing openness, adoption and reproducibility in science.
OpenCon 2016 Program
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.
How Scientists Are Fighting Bias In Research By Writing Down Their Theories In Advance
How Scientists Are Fighting Bias In Research By Writing Down Their Theories In Advance
Scientific research is being skewed by researchers and journals changing what they're looking for after the results of the study come in. But some people are finding ways to fight back against their own bias.
Making Data and Tools Available for the World To See
At ATLAS, data sharing and an open, innovative approach to information collaboration has become a fundamental part of this important scientific community.
Mining the Secrets of College Syllabuses
The creators of the Open Syllabus Project hope that sharing data can both improve and reward teaching.
Wellcome Researchers and their Attitudes to Open Research
Results of a survey of Wellcome researchers to find out what they think about open research, how they practice it, and some of the barriers they face.
BioStudies, The Data Bento Box
A new database at EMBL-EBI gives a home to all of the data supporting a study.
“We see it as our jobs to not only understand the open science movement, but to drive it.”
“We see it as our jobs to not only understand the open science movement, but to drive it.”
Interview with Rusty Speidel, Marketing Director at the Center for Open Science (COS).
How To Be an Academic in the Twenty-First Century
Open research is about more than open access. It is about making all aspects of the research process open to all possible interested parties.
ScienceOpen Partners with PeerJ
PeerJ will be indexing one of their flagship open access journals, PeerJ Computer Science, with ScienceOpen.
Labfolder Signs Agreement with Max Planck Society
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
Why Policy Needs Philosophers as Much as it Needs Science
Philosophers could help policy makers to ask the right questions. But to give this practical help, academic philosophy must take lessons from open science.
Realising the European Open Science Cloud
First report and recommendations on the European Open Science Cloud.
OpenTrials Launches Beta Version
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’.
A story of struggles to do reproducible computational fluid dynamics
A story of struggles to do reproducible computational fluid dynamics
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.
United Nations report calls for OA to improve global health
Last month the United Nations released a report with recommendations on how to improve innovation and access to health technologies.
Commitment to Research Transparency and Open Science
A voluntary commitment to the values of openness and transparency in science.
Connecting Authors, Publications and Workflows Using ORCID Identifiers
This article describes some of the ways that identifiers can help to unlock the potential of open research.
NIH aims to beef up clinical trial design
NIH wants to expand the sharing of summary data from clinical trials, such as test results being reviewed here at NIH’s clinical center.
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