Open Science News – 30 October 2015
| 30 October, 2015 | Eva Amsen |
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The schedule for the open science track of the Mozilla Festival is up. The festival will take place on November 6-8 in London, and tickets are still available (and give you access to all the other tracks as well, just in case three parallel streams of open science aren’t enough).- Later in November, the 7th Canadian Science Policy Conference (November 25-27 in Ottawa) will also include a session about open science.
- Elizabeth Moylan wrote about BioMed Central’s visit to China, and conversations they had with early career researchers there about open access and peer review.
- Nordic Perspectives in Open Science is a new journal all about open science. The journal is open access, of course, and you can read more about the goals in the editorial by Jan Erik Frantsvåg. Although its focus is on open science in Nordic and Baltic countries, they will consider submissions from outside that area.
- Pete Etchells discusses the issues of using copyrighted materials in (social science) experiments, and how this affects replication. Even if you have permission to use materials once for your study, will others be allowed to use it in replications? Samuel Mehr, who tried to replicate earlier work based on (now unavailable) copyrighted YouTube videos says “The overarching issue here is that we shouldn’t even be having this conversation in the first place. What the hell do I know about copyright law? (…) This should be such an easy problem to head off. We could have avoided all of this just by doing basic practices of open science.” (emphasis mine).
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