Lots of meeting notes from Open Science meeting in this week’s roundup! Meeting report from last week’s Open Science meeting at the Center for Open Science, by Amye Kenall. When Data Sharing Gets Close to 100%: What Human Paleogenetics Can Teach the Open Science Movement. Article in PLOS One Notes from the Science 2.0 Conference…
Amanda Rodewald writes on The Hill about recent bills considered in the US, and discusses whether they are in sync with the ideal of Open Science. Lots of tweets from the Open Science meeting at the Center for Open Science on #opensci15 An interesting workshop for graduate school administrators “from Engineering, Marine and Biosciences Doctoral…
The latest in Open Science news: Are you attending the Experimental Biology meeting later this month? We’ll be there, at booth 541, and we’ll have a few printed copies of our Guide to Open Science Publishing. If you missed yesterday’s Mozilla Science Lab call, the notes are on the etherpad. Mozilla Science Lab have also…
Science communication is broken, let’s fix it. Vip Sitaraman writes on the Huffington Post. He offers severa; open access solutions. Monday’s Open Data Hong Kong meeting is all about open science. Right now in Rome, there’s a free Open Science meeting happening at Sapienza University. It’s on until tomorrow. Open Access Academy is running a…
We recently published the Guide to Open Science Publishing – a PDF that you can download, print, and share with your colleagues. It contains information about open access, open peer review, post-publication peer review, open data, and other aspects of open science, and it was based on a series of blog posts we published last…
It was a busy week for Open Science, so these are just some of the highlights we came across. What drives academic data sharing? An article by researchers from Berlin concludes that “research policies that better incentivise data sharing are needed to improve the quality of research results and foster scientific progress” Henry Chesbrough, who…
Brief news from the world of open science: Tomorrow is International Open Data Day See if there are any events near you! A science BarCamp (unconference) in Hamburg on March 24 Great comprehensive list of open science events in Europe Average article processing charge (in GBP) paid by UK universities for open access articles(NB: ours…
A selection of new content on F1000Research from the past week. To receive notification of all new articles, sign up for our table of contents alerts. Featured article Characterizing alpha helical properties of Ebola viral proteins as potential targets for inhibition of alpha-helix mediated protein-protein interactions [v3; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/50u] Sandeep Chakraborty, Basuthkar J.…
A mixed bag of open science news in this week’s round-up. We’ve mentioned the Open Science Q&A proposal on Stack Exchange before. They now have 58% of the required number of committed users. Commitment is minimal: if you can answer just a few questions about open science, please sign up to help them reach their…
New tools and resources: Tool from SPARC Europe to test how open your institute’s research is A proposed Q&A for scientists interested in open science. It still needs about a hundred people to commit. The Open Glossary contains lots of useful terms related to open science. New paper and recommendations from the Open Science Initiative.…
