Open Science News – 17 April 2015
| 17 April, 2015 | Eva Amsen |
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The biggest open science news this week was the announcement that the World Health Organisation is asking for clinical trial data to be made publicly available.- Many lives could have been saved if crucial Ebola research had not been behind a paywall, reports TechDirt.
- Lack of available data could have prevented several cases of research fraud, or identified them more easily, suggested a book about research fraud in The Netherlands (Disclaimer: book review by me).
- Nature Biotechnology is starting to ask reviewers “to assess the availability of documentation and algorithms used in computational analyses, not just the description of the work”, as reported by Erika Check Hayden on Nature News.
- Apple put their ResearchKit framework on Github, to allow anyone to develop apps based on the medical data collection abilities of the new iOS. (For a discussion of the ethics of Apple’s ResearchKit, see this article on The Verge.)
- PLOS launched a new blog, all about science communication. Their first post is by John Udell, titled “When Open Access is the norm, how do scientists work together online?“
- Our Managing Director, Rebecca Lawrence, was at the BRECIS breast cancer meeting in Qatar this week to present a poster about the importance of sharing conference posters and slides. If that’s not meta enough for you, the poster is itself also available to download from F1000Posters, of course.
- Do you want some stickers? Stacy Konkiel has assembled an open science sticker pack with ten stickers from different open science organisations that she’ll mail you in return for $1 for postage. We’re not in the pack, but I’m happy to send you F1000Research stickers as well, if you drop me a line.
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