This week, some literal “open science news” as open science hit the media: Open science was mentioned on Canadian TV this week, in TVO’s The Agenda with Steve Paikin. Wall Street journal blog Pharmalot discusses issues with sharing older clinical trial data. Science Careers discusses various aspects of open science, from open notebooks to open…
Interesting sites Looking at open science through the prism of a social dilemma. The open science movement is itself the subject of scholarly research. Very interesting stuff! “[O]pen science can be looked at through the prism of a social dilemma: what is in the collective best interest is not necessarily in the best interest of…
Today, we are very pleased to highlight some exciting new data with regards to genome sequencing. We have just published a short research paper from the Bader lab at the University of Toronto providing the first public example of the Oxford MinION nanopore sequencer being evaluated for utility in the clinic. For those not familiar…
Three topics jumped out in Open Science news this week: open peer review, calls for conference posters, and FORCE2015 meeting summaries. Open Review A new version of the Open Science Peer Review Oath is now up. Based on reviewers’ and commenters’ feedback, the new version is much more succinct. Related: Daniel Katz blogged about open…
We’re starting 2015 off with lots of open science news. Here’s a summary: Next week is the FORCE2015 meeting in Oxford, about innovations in research communication. If you’re not able to attend, you can follow the conference online on their site or via Twitter at #FORCE2015 Two open science communities have community calls next week.…
Interview with Github’s Arfon Smith on OKCast, about open source and open science The Christmas 2014 Open Source Malaria shortlist of the most-needed molecules to be synthesized in the fight against malaria. Contribute to the Open Glossary – a list of “open” definitions. Almost 2.5 million of the National History Museum’s specimens are now online.…
This week every single item in our round-up is something that YOU can participate in. If you’re in North America or in the Northern part of South America (check the map) you can help out the Audubon Bird Count by counting birds near you between December 14 and January 5. Find out how to join…
It’s been a busy few weeks, so we missed a few roundups of open science news, but it was so busy because there was a LOT going on in the open science world! Here is a very brief summary of just the key news of the past weeks: funding news and meeting summaries. Better funder…
Beat Ebola with better research sharing, says the discoverer of virus.
Key points F1000Research: Ebola article collection launched to enable all Ebola-related knowledge to be made available on a single platform within days of submission. All articles submitted to this collection will be prioritized and those accepted will be published free of charge. F1000Research has set up a dedicated phone line (+442071931030) to enable those working…
