We have a little bit of an interest in Open Access here at F1000 (yes, I know F1000 itself is a subscription service, but bear with me). We’re part of the same company that brought you BioMed Central; we publish original, open access reviews; and we have the world’s largest? first? best? research poster repository.…
Open source, open access, open posters even–but open science? Is that a step too far? The arguments over whether open data–publishing experimental results on the web, making datasets available, etc.–is a good thing, for science as a whole or individual careers, are likely to rage for quite a long time to come. That hasn’t stopped…
No, not something to do with fruit. We’ve been thinking a bit about open data recently, talking to Peter Murray-Rust and Cameron Neylon, and generally kicking around ideas about how we might like to change the world. Again.
There was a rather wonderful paper in Cell in the middle of last year from Deepak Srivastava’s lab at UCSF: Direct Reprogramming of Fibroblasts into Functional Cardiomyocytes by Defined Factors1. It was picked up by two of our Faculty teams and has already garned more than 40 citations.
Here’s the concluding part of the interview with Peter Murray-Rust at the University of Cambridge. We talked a bit about publishing data, and indeed science as a whole: where open data started for Peter was when he suggested all science should be published as supplemental data. Taking such a suggestion forward, the problem then becomes…
In this second of three videos featuring Peter Murray-Rust, from the Chemistry Department of the University of Cambridge, recorded at the Panton Arms, I ask him if he has faced any opposition to the concept of open data. Peter is more concerned about the dangers of partial publication, where in his words people want the…
If you’re following the right people on Twitter you might notice a peculiar hashtag: #beyondthePDF. This refers to a workshop at UCSD, which has the goal to identify a set of requirements, and a group of willing participants to develop open source code to accelerate scientific knowledge sharing (H/T Martin Fenner).
Cameron Neylon is a Senior Scientist in Biomolecular Sciences at the ISIS Neutron Scattering facility at the Science and Technology Facilities Council. He has more than a passing interest in “Open Research” and is well-known for advocating the benefits for science of open access, both in terms of data and publications. Download ‘Reusing data’ (5.7MB)…
