Open Science News – 10 July 2015
| 10 July, 2015 | Eva Amsen |
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How can we use open science to make science more “public-friendly”? Matteo Cantiello has some suggestions.- Svetlana Belkin launched the Open Undergrad Research Foundation (OpenURF), but is looking for someone to help her run it. See the OpenURF blog for details on what she needs help with.
- This is not new, but we found it doing the rounds again: the Open Data Excuses Bingo card. Why are researchers not sharing their data?
- Curate Science is a new web application to manage independent verification of research findings.
- We just missed this in last week’s roundup, but there’s a great blog post on the eLife blog, showing the results of a survey about open access among early career researchers at the Max Planck institute. Within the open science community we tend to think that everyone surely knows about open access now (it’s been around for 15 years!) but this shows that even at a research institute that fully supports open access, researchers don’t know that much about it yet. (It is for this audience that we published the Guide to Open Science Publishing)
- For early career researchers in the Bay Area, the Future of Research symposium is coming your way next week! Registration is still open, and is free. FOR is a great organisation representing postdocs who are concerned by the changes that are happening in academia, which will diretcly affect this generation of researchers. The proceedings from last year’s Boston meeting are published in F1000Research, so you can have a look at those before attending the SF event.
- Later this summer, London is host to the Wikipedia Science Conference, meant for researchers, science communicators, librarians, etc. It’s only £29 to attend, and will take place September 2 and 3.
- Here are the notes from yesterday’s Mozilla Science Lab community call, which covered reports from two of the Mozilla study groups, and an update from Bianca Kramer about the ongoing survey about innovations in scholarly communication.
- Finally, our founder, Vitek Tracz, wrote an article for Research Information, about the secretive world of biomedical research (and how he’s hoping to change it). He says “I do not think that scientists need journals or editors to decide what should be published. Scientists read articles, not journals.”
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