Open Science News - 3 October 2015

2 October, 2015

This week was the inaugural Peer Review Week, with tweets under the #PeerRevwk15. F1000Research published our own compilation of useful peer review blogs here.
A new study published by BMJ Open showed that open peer review is superior to a closed model
Researchers shared their open science stories on the Winnower, for example, “How becoming an open scientist made me fall back in love with neuroscience.”
The Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication released a special issue on open data in research.
The White House held a live-webcast forum on citizen science and crowdsourcing. You can catch up on what was discussed using the #WHCitSci hashtag.
Digital Science are hosting a webinar on how to better facilitate scholarly collaboration, on Thursday 8th October at 4pm BST/11am ET. They’ll be using the #DSwebinar hashtag.

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