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On the need to recognise good practice, engage researchers early in their career with research data management and use peers to talk to those who are not ‘onboard’.
When statistical fudging is buried in the way data are sliced and diced after the fact or put through tortured analysis in a search for significant results.
The Good Pharma Scorecard finds some big pharmaceutical companies are meeting legal standards for disclosing results—but many studies still go unreported.
Text and data mining made easy with the allofPLOS project. Parsing tools together with the entire corpus of PLOS research articles for download.
Fostering collaboration and good data practices in faculties.
The preservation of software has become as essential as preserving research articles and data sets.
On the important role of professional medical writers in improving the quality of reports on clinical trials.
The Wellcome Trust, the Medical Research Council, Cancer Research UK, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation share a common vision for maximizing the value of data that are generated through the trials they fund.
The League of European Research Universities (LERU) proposes four golden principles for enhancing the competitiveness of medium-sized research infrastructures in Europe.
Investigating the implementation of data management and sharing requirements within development research projects.
Ideas and data can interact, and our work can certainly benefit from the bad ideas that, in the short-term, do not seem to directly benefit discovery.
How to make widespread open data a reality.
An analysis of a collection of open-access datasets quantifies their benefit to the scientific community.
Investigating the implementation of data management and sharing requirements within seven development research projects.
Canadian Science Publishing's Mary Seligy provides a primer on standards, XML and JATS4R, which is driving improved reusability of scholarly content.
Looking at some of the issues around the reuse of scientific data and open a conversation about how to deal with them.
Non-profit is not synonymous with good, and for-profit is not synonymous with exploitation.
Concern over the use of public data spurs guideline update.
A novel text-mining strategy that identifies articles producing biological data.
Elsevier signs up to TOP guidelines & develops new data-sharing guidelines for journals.
SNSF grant-holders may deposit their scientific data in any recognized digital archive (commercial or not) that meets the FAIR principles.
What it means for researchers.
There is too little sound research on journal peer review.
It turns out that defining "raw" is a little trickier than it might seem.
Sparrho is developing a free platform to find and share research publications and patents.
In a decentralized architecture, anyone has the ability to download and re-host data without changing it's permanent identifier.
Linked Open Data may sound good and noble, but it’s the wrong way around.
The British Academy and the Royal Society are carrying out a project examining new uses of data and their implications, and reviewing the data governance landscape.
FAIR doesn’t actually require the data or software to be openly available.
