Open science news – 24 October 2014

24 October, 2014

Andres Delgado thinks some of the features of Medium would be perfectly suited to writing scientific articles.
F1000Research Advisory Board member Victoria Stodden gave a seminar about reproducibility in computational science.
A summary of the highlights of last week’s Open Science Days at the Max Planck Institute.
Today is the first day of Mozfest, and the schedule for the science track, which starts tomorrow, is now online.
Open Access Week is still in full swing, and has been the main open science highlight across the world for the past days. A few Open Access Week activities:
- Rebecca Lawrence’s Reddit Science AMA about F1000Research and the demise of journals
- The relaunch of Open Access Button
- Nature Communications became a fully open access journal, the first Nature-branded fully open access title at NPG.
- Our Google Hangout with Abel Packer from Scielo, posted below:

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