The Week in Review is our weekly roundup of what’s new in open science from the past week. If you have news or announcements you’d like passed on to the community, be sure to share on Twitter with @mozillascience and @arlissc99, or join our mailing list and get in touch there.
Blogs & Articles
- Read about the findings from the Reproducibility Project published in Science this past week.
- Chris Woolston writes about work done by Alexander Petersen which talks about how strong, long-term collaborations among researchers could lead to a “boost in citation rate for resulting papers”.
- Jon Tennant wrote a piece for Wiley about the rise of open research data in which he discusses the importance of having data “openly available to support research papers”.
- Neil Chue Hong (Software Sustainability Institute), Simon Hettrick (Software Sustainability Institute), Andrew Jones (NAG) and Daniel S. Katz (University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory) wrote a joint response to a viewpoint published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry.
- The team at Registry for Research Data Repositories (re3data) introduced the persistent identifier which means that “from now on every re3data.org record is persistently accessible and citable via its own persistent identifier”.
Tools
- The Consortia Advancing Standards in Research Administration Information (CASRAI) has released a new glossary for research data management. They’re looking for your feedback and input.
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