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Can a Checklist Improve the Quality of Reporting of Clinical Trials?
On the important role of professional medical writers in improving the quality of reports on clinical trials.
Data Sharing from Clinical Trials — A Research Funder’s Perspective
Data Sharing from Clinical Trials — A Research Funder’s Perspective
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.
LERU Identifies 4 Golden Principles to Underpin Europe’s Medium-sized Research Infrastructures
LERU Identifies 4 Golden Principles to Underpin Europe’s Medium-sized Research Infrastructures
The League of European Research Universities (LERU) proposes four golden principles for enhancing the competitiveness of medium-sized research infrastructures in Europe.
Policy Design and Implementation for Research Data Management in Development Research
Policy Design and Implementation for Research Data Management in Development Research
Investigating the implementation of data management and sharing requirements within development research projects.
Idea Farming for Open Science: Sharing Wider Scientific Outputs Will Stimulate Ideas, Discoveries and Outcomes
Idea Farming for Open Science: Sharing Wider Scientific Outputs Will Stimulate Ideas, Discoveries and Outcomes
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.
Collaboration and Concerted Action Are Key to Making Open Data a Reality
Collaboration and Concerted Action Are Key to Making Open Data a Reality
How to make widespread open data a reality.
Share Your Data
An analysis of a collection of open-access datasets quantifies their benefit to the scientific community.
Building a Culture of Data Sharing: Policy Design and Implementation for Research Data Management in Development Research
Building a Culture of Data Sharing: Policy Design and Implementation for Research Data Management in Development Research
Investigating the implementation of data management and sharing requirements within seven development research projects.
JATS4R: Optimizing the Reusability of Scholarly Content
Canadian Science Publishing's Mary Seligy provides a primer on standards, XML and JATS4R, which is driving improved reusability of scholarly content.
(Re)usable Data Project
Looking at some of the issues around the reuse of scientific data and open a conversation about how to deal with them.
Open-Source, Commercial, Non-Profit, For-Profit: What Power Have You Got?
Open-Source, Commercial, Non-Profit, For-Profit: What Power Have You Got?
Non-profit is not synonymous with good, and for-profit is not synonymous with exploitation.
Ethics of Internet Research Trigger Scrutiny
Concern over the use of public data spurs guideline update.
Evaluating Biomedical Data Production with Text Mining
A novel text-mining strategy that identifies articles producing biological data.
Supporting Data Openness, Transparency & Sharing
Elsevier signs up to TOP guidelines & develops new data-sharing guidelines for journals.
Support from Swiss Funder
SNSF grant-holders may deposit their scientific data in any recognized digital archive (commercial or not) that meets the FAIR principles.
Wellcome’s New Policy on Sharing Research Data
What it means for researchers.
Promote Scientific Integrity via Journal Peer Review Data
Promote Scientific Integrity via Journal Peer Review Data
There is too little sound research on journal peer review.
What Does It Mean to Share 'Raw Data'?
It turns out that defining "raw" is a little trickier than it might seem.
Sparrho Raises $3 Million to Democratize Access to Science Research
Sparrho is developing a free platform to find and share research publications and patents.
Locking Science Open with Decentralized Scientific Archives
In a decentralized architecture, anyone has the ability to download and re-host data without changing it's permanent identifier.
Against Linked Open Data
Linked Open Data may sound good and noble, but it’s the wrong way around.
Data Management and Use: Governance in the 21st Century
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 Is Not Fair Enough
FAIR doesn’t actually require the data or software to be openly available.
Data Science for Doctors
Learn the skills to supercharge your next audit, quality improvement or research project.
Coursera Course on Research Data Management and Sharing
An introduction to research data management and sharing, starting Jun 19.
Austrian Science Fund Open Research Data Pilot Report
Austrian Science Fund Open Research Data Pilot Report
Supporting the development of new models for open research data in the digital age.
Data Sharing Can Offer Help in Science's Reproducibility Crisis
A team of researchers suggest that the increasing complexity of managing data may be one reason that reproducibility has fallen off.
Reproducible and Reusable Research: Are Journal Data Sharing Policies Meeting the Mark?
Reproducible and Reusable Research: Are Journal Data Sharing Policies Meeting the Mark?
The pervasiveness and quality of data sharing policies in the biomedical literature.