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.
Tools & Projects
- The Center for Open Science is offering grants to anyone who can connect their Open Science Framework with popular data and resource hosting services. Grants are currently on offer for work interfacing the OSF with Dryad, Bitbucket and Zenodo.
- Also from the Center for Open Science, a new badging system for acknowledging open practices has been described. The Center’s badging framework acknowledges three broad categories of practice: Open Data, Open Materials, and Preregistration.
- The new GitXiv service seeks to link computer science papers on arxiv with open source implementations of the ideas they describe on GitHub; this project formed to accommodate the growing trend in that field of pairing publications on the two services. Also see the description on Medium.
Government & Policy
- Heather Joseph reported that The US federal governement’s Free Access to Science & Technology Research (FASTR) Act has passed its Senate subcommittee hearing and will now be considered by the full Senate. The bill “calls for federal agencies with extramural research budgets in excess of $100 million to establish consistent, permanent public access policies for articles reporting on their funded research.”
- Janet Stemwedel wrote about the challenges to reproducing third party research, focusing on the need for more thorough & incentivized sharing of methods & protocols.
Blogs & Articles
- Felix Schönbrodt described the new Open Science Committee in the psychology department of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. The goals of the Committee include providing concrete guidance on how to implement open science policies in research in the department, and how to integrate performance on those goals into hiring and tenure reviews.
- Megan Potter and Tim Smith reviewed the DOI service provided by Zenodo to GitHub repositories, enabling the citation of code housed there.
- Eryk Salvaggio blogged about the Wikipedia Year of Science, and described several ways to get involved in what he describes as “[an] exciting, large-scale science communication project.”
- Scott Edmunds described a recent example of a fully dockerized study into microbial biogas production as an example of how modernized publishing techniques can dramatically improve on reproducibility and transparency over a traditional journal article.
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