Open Science News – 28 August 2015
28 August, 2015 | Eva Amsen |
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The big open science news this week was the publication of the summary report of the Center for Open Science’s Reproducibility Project, which replicated one hundred published studies in psychology, and found that more than half did not hold up. The entire project is itself open for anyone to reproduce in R and Ed Yong covers the whole story on The Atlantic.
- A new book, available in both English and Portuguese, discusses various aspects of open science through an international lens.
- The Association of European Research Libraries (LIBER) has a job opening for an EU Projects Officer, based in The Hague, to work on projects related to open science.
- The Wikipedia Science Conference will take place on Wednesday and Thursday of next week. Meeting hashtag is #wikisci so make sure to follow along!
- re3data announced that they have started using persistent identifiers for their records.
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