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 @billdoesphysics, or join our mailing list and get in touch there.
Blogs & Articles
- Richard Morey detailed the techniques and tools he’s using to make the text of his latest paper ‘radically open’ in its post-publication form.
- Arfon Smith blogged on his ideas for Service Oriented Science, a computing model that encourages the use of software-as-a-service-like tools for processing and distributing scientific data.
- Ben Goldacre raised alarm bells over Cyagen’s offer to pay researchers for citing their products in high-impact journals.
- Joyce Li of BioMed Central examined the driving forces behind the growth of open access publishing in China.
- Jeff Stafford blogged a cautionary tale describing both the importance to reproducibility of and a strategy for effective package management in R.
- Alessandro Vespignani commented on the importance of open data in the context of infeasible-to-replicate experiments.
Lessons & Projects
- Gavin Simpson and Naupaka Zimmerman ran a workshop at the recent Ecological Society of America meeting on using the vegan package in R for advanced population ecology; check out the workshop notes on GitHub.
- Shaun Jackman webcast a lesson introducing the Make build tool, in context with a full toolchain including R, knittr and GitHub.
- The German OKFN community has produced an open access checklist, consisting of 10 simple things an individual can do at their institution to advocate for open access publishing.
Initiatives & Funds
- The Laura & John Arnold Foundation has given $3.8M to Stanford to establish the Center for Reproducible Neuroscience. The CRN will provide researchers with the infrastructure to share their data openly, report their complete methodology and require the pre-registration of studies conducted there. To incentivize participation in this data sharing framework, the CRN will make substantial computing resources available to participants
At the Science Lab
- Abby Cabunoc Mayes announced the Open Research Accelerator coming to the Science track at MozFest in London this November; if you’d like to work together to jump start open practices in your research, get in touch!
- Thanks to everyone who applied to the first round of our Fellows program! We’re busily digging into your submissions now, and hope to have the fellows in-seat in September.
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