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Open Science, Reproducibility, Credit and Collaboration

Open science is a philosophy as much as it is an imperative. It is asking scientists to give up the unspoken reciprocal partnerships between data generators and those who use the data down the road. (…) Reciprocation is necessary, but that it is a potential benefit provided to the data generators that we may be losing in a move to central repositories. Data generation is costly, it is high (or higher) risk, and it is often slow, but it is critical to move macro-scale research forward, and to find the teleconnections between ecosystems that can help push science forward. 
Blog.  

The Need For Open Science

Over some years now scientists and science-enthusiasts across the globe have been trying to open up the way science is done. Movements like the ‘Budapest Open Access Initiative‘ or the ‘BOAI‘ have been more than successful in this. Scientists all over the world boycotted a few journals, that were against Open Access, and many of the journals now have accepted Open Access of research as a necessity. The Public Library of Science publishes the PLOS journals that are very much Open Access. However, a great deal is to be done yet to make the publication process in sciences democratized.

Why openness benefits research

Transparency is essential for trust and credibility in the research community, and true openness brings great opportunities for academia. The internet facilitates the free flow of information and knowledge, and permits new forms of communication both for researchers and for the general public. Already, today’s children can listen freely on the internet to university courses taught by world-leading scientists, and everybody has the best encyclopaedia ever written (Wikipedia) at their fingertips.  These are real game changers. Opening up the research literature is the next logical step.
Blogpost by David Shotton and Heinrich Hartmann.

Open Science and Science 2.0

In our talk we tried to outline what’s wrong with the academic system of doing science and discuss various initiatives which try to improve the situation. We focused on how to make the publishing system more open and transparent (Open Science) and create completely new ways of collaborating and sharing scientific knowledge (so called “Science 2.0”).
Michał Kotowski and Piotr Migdał.

Open Citations and Semantic Publishing

Transparency is essential for trust and credibility in the research community, and true openness brings great opportunities for academia. The internet facilitates the free flow of information and knowledge, and permits new forms of communication both for researchers and for the general public. Already, today’s children can listen freely on the internet to university courses taught by world-leading scientists, and everybody has the best encyclopaedia ever written (Wikipedia) at their fingertips.  These are real game changers. Opening up the research literature is the next logical step.
David Shotton. See also this and this post.

Open Science Challenge

Open Science Challenge

To support data reuse and reproducible research, rOpenSci is happy to announce an open science challenge. If you can propose a research project (or enhance an existing effort) involving one or more of our packages, our team will provide you with all the support you’ll need to complete and publish this effort.

Deadline to application: Janary, 31st, 2013.

See also this blog entry.

Popular Science Writing by a Scientist: An Interview with Rob Dunn

Popular Science Writing by a Scientist: An Interview with Rob Dunn

Rob Dunn, biologist and writer in the Department of Biology at North Carolina State University on popular science writing:

My writing opens up new perspectives I had been missing. It changes how I think about what matters. I feel an obligation to the public to help people understand the ecology and evolution of the world around us, and I think that this sense of obligation is an opportunity. On a more ordinary level, my writing allows me to engage more and different audiences.

SciLogs. 

The Global Young Academy (GYA) embraces Open Science movement as being in the best interest of science

The Global Young Academy (GYA) embraces Open Science movement as being in the best interest of science

The Global Young Academy issued a position statement that identifies obstacles that currently stand in the way of giving free access to scientific results and data, and advocates ways forward that will transform scientific research into a truly global endeavour. The GYA calls for scientific results to be made freely available for scientists around the world and for future generations.