By Laure Haak (Executive Director, ORCID) and Rebecca Lawrence (Managing Director, F1000 Research Ltd); cross-posted on the ORCID blog. Peer review is an essential component of the research and scholarly lifecycle. And yet, researcher peer review activities are rarely acknowledged as a fundamental contribution to research. At the same time, the need to encourage more…
This week in open science news: Some interesting pieces to read, and a few ways you can be involved in open science via hack days, community calls, or surveys. Things to read: Science is often flawed. It’s time we embraced that. By Julia Belluz and Steven Hoffman on Vox Will traditional science journals disappear? By…
The Hague Declaration to improve knowledge creation in the digital age was launched in Brussels on Wednesday, and is now open for you to sign! The Open Source Malaria project needs some people to help add OSM numbers to compounds. If you want to help, all the info is on GitHub. Kim Holmberg uploaded some…
Earlier this week, the Advancing Research Communication & Scholarship conference took place in Philadelphia. Here, Paige Brown moderated a roundtable on Socializing Scholarly Communication, with Lou Woodley, Erin McKiernan and Ivan Oransky. On the BioMedCentral blog, Stephanie Harriman wrote a summary of another ARCScon panel, on Righting Peer Review. You can find more tweets/slides/thoughts from…
This week we are very excited to announce our first publishing partnership with a prestigious academic society. From July, the International Society of Computational Biology (ISCB) will have its own dedicated channel on F1000Research for the ISCB Community Journal. [See press release]. F1000 has always had a fruitful relationship with the computational biology community, and…
Yesterday and today the FOSTER-UNESCO Open Science for Doctoral Schools meeting took place in Paris. Attendees have been tweeting using the #OpenSci4Doc hashtag. Digital Science has been busy: Here’s a summary of their “Shaking It Up: Challenges and Solutions in Scholarly Information Management” event in San Francisco earlier this week, and an announcement of an…
The biggest open science news this week was the announcement that the World Health Organisation is asking for clinical trial data to be made publicly available. Many lives could have been saved if crucial Ebola research had not been behind a paywall, reports TechDirt. Lack of available data could have prevented several cases of research…
Are you in New York City? There’s an Open Science meetup next week. Last week’s webinar about getting tenure with open science, with Titus Brown, is now viewable on YouTube. The US Government has released datasets to help study the health impacts of climate change. Erin McKiernan has collected examples of collaborations resulting from open…
Back in November 2014, BioMed Central discovered about 50 manuscripts in their editorial system that involved fake peer reviewers. Following a detailed investigation, they have now started the process of retracting 43 papers that had been published on the basis of reviews from made-up reviewers. Some of these papers were from the original 50 but…
A day early this week because of the bank holiday tomorrow, but there was still plenty of news from the open science community. This Friday (April 3) you can tune in to a webinar on “Gaining Tenure as an Open Scientist”, hosted by OpenCon with Titus Brown as guest. One of the fears people often…
