Nature - Releasing lab-built open-source software often involves a mountain of unforeseen work for the developers.

This Perspective article argues that universities should take action to support open scholarship that benefits society and to return to their core missions of knowledge dissemination, community engagement, and public good.

Introduction This article presents the results of a research project that sought to understand both at a theoretical and an empirical level the proposal of an “open notebook science”, as part of th...

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The internet era, large-scale computing and storage resources, mobile devices, social media, and their high uptake among different groups of people, have all deeply changed the way knowledge is created, communicated, and further deployed. These advances have enabled a radical transformation of the practice of science, which is now more open, more global and collaborative, and closer to society than ever. Open science has therefore become an increasingly important topic. Moreover, as open science is actively pursued by several high-profile funders and institutions, it has fast become a crucial matter to all researchers. However, because this widespread interest in open science has emerged relatively recently, its definition and implementation are constantly shifting and evolving, sometimes leaving researchers in doubt about how to adopt open science, and which are the best practices to follow. This article therefore aims to be a field guide for scientists who want to perform science in the open, offering resources and tips to make open science happen in the four key areas of data, code, publications and peer-review.

Old-fashioned ways of reporting new discoveries are holding back medical research. Some scientists are pushing for change

KEYNOTE: Erin McKiernan, My pledge to be open (Yeah, how’s that going?) As given at OpenCon 2015 Brussels. Marking the official launch of http://whyopenresearc…

Jon Tennant is a PhD student based at Imperial College London, investigating extinction and biodiversity patterns of Mesozoic tetrapods – anything with four legs or flippers. Prior to this, there was a brief interlude where Jon was immersed in the world of science policy and communication, which has greatly shaped his view on the broader […]

Digital technologies carry the promise of transforming science and opening up the research process. We interviewed researchers from a variety of backgrounds about their attitudes towards and experiences with openness in their research practices. We observe a considerable discrepancy between the concept of open science and scholarly reality. While many researchers support open science in theory, the individual researcher is confronted with various difficulties when putting open science into practice. We analyse the major obstacles to open science and group them into two main categories: individual obstacles and systemic obstacles. We argue that the phenomenon of open science can be seen through the prism of a social dilemma: what is in the collective best interest of the scientific community is not necessarily in the best interest of the individual scientist. We discuss the possibilities of transferring theoretical solutions to social dilemma problems to the realm of open science.

"You can have anonymous data or you can have open science, but you can't have both."

Zenodo: archive for stuff in GitHub.

The Open Science Training Initiative, by Sophie Kay

Academia.edu is a platform for academics to share research papers.

Academia.edu is a platform for academics to share research papers.