The Sydney Conference on Scholarly Communication Beyond Paywalls took place this week, and you can find lots of tweets under the #sydconf15 hashtag, and a summary video on their YouTube channel. A new resource on opensource.com: What is open science? There are just a few weeks left to apply for the Mozilla Fellowship for Science.…
Today and tomorrow the Future of Research meeting is taking place in San Francisco. You can find a report from their first meeting in F1000Research. Ron Vale has written a great preprint about the need for preprints. “Our analysis suggests that publication practices have changed considerably in the life sciences over the past thirty years.…
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…
Greece has lost access to a large amount of academic journals, now that a main academic portal has closed due to lack of funding. This is the kind of thing that open science can prevent! Meanwhile, elsewhere in Europe, Dutch academics are standing up to Elsevier and are planning a boycott. The national association of…
Authorea released the workflow, data and working draft of an important Ebola article that was published recently in Cell. For outbreaks of infectious diseases such as Ebola it is especially critical that information is available to researchers and healthcare workers. (F1000Research has waived article processing charges on any submissions to the Ebola channel, which also…
The CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication is currently underway in Geneva. You can follow along on Twitter with the #OAI9 hashtag. Euroscientist interviewed Jan Velterop about the next steps towards open science. The Web will either kill science journals or save them, says Wired. We’re mentioned as one of the positive changes. As…
Slides from the Open Repositories keynote on leveraging the web for science are now available. On Statistics Views, Joanna Carpenter talks about Reproducibility in science: uncovering truths Do you know cases where emergencies triggered openness in response, for example data sharing during disease outbreaks such as the recent Ebola crisis? Daniel Mietchen is collecting instances…
OpenCon 2015 applications are open! The conference will take place November 14-16 in Brussels. If you’re a student or early career academics, apply for a spot at the meeting. If you’re in or near London, drop by London Open Drinks on June 10, 6PM, at The Fellow in King’s Cross. Meet publishers and others working…
Neil Chue Hong crowdsourced a long list of all the journals in which you can publish software. Green or Gold? On their blogs, open access champions Michael Eisen and Mike Taylor debate what the future will look like. The inevitable failure of parasitic green open access, by Michael Eisen, and the response by Mike Taylor,…
When will “open science” become simply “science”? By Mick Watson in Genome Biology. Slides for a short course called “Open Science goes Geo”, which was presented at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly earlier this year, are available on Zenodo in three parts: Part I: Research Data, Part II: Scientific Software, Part III: Beyond Data…
