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.
Jobs & Awards
- The Mozilla Science Lab opened applications for three fellowship positions. The Fellows will work from within their home institutions to advance open science in their fields, with support and training from the Science Lab. Kaitlin Thaney blogged about some of the motivations behind this program.
Tools & Projects
- ROpenSci recently released a 0.1 of their traits package, an R package for aggregating species trait information.
- The PlantCV project recently published data to accompany its paper on an automated plant phenotyping platform.
Meetings & Conferences
- The third Working towards Sustainable Software for Science Practice and Experience (WSSSPE3) has opened its first call for participation. The meeting will be September 28-29 in Boulder, CO, and will be organized around self-directed teams seeking to “produce software that is more sustainable, including developing sustainable career paths for community members.”
Blogs & Articles
- Julia Belluz provided a survey of recent articles on structural problems in the scientific establishment.
- Erin McKiernan wrote a guest blog at Mozilla Science on the upcoming OpenCon 2015 in Brussels, Belgium.
- Mark Carrigan & Jacqueline Bartram posted an illustrated case for scientific blogging.
Publishing
- The Transparency & Openness Promotion (TOP) Committee’s new TOP Guidelines, were endorsed by 111 journals and 34 organizations this week. The Guidelines are intended for adoption by journals or funders, to better ensure transparency and reproducibility in the research they publish and support. See the full press release, as well as an article in the Guardian from Chris Chambers and Brian Nosek.
- The Brazilian branch of the Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO Brazil) has decided to adopt CC-BY licensing for all its content, effective July 1. SciELO Brazil hopes the move will also encourage other regional SciELO divisions to adopt the creative commons license in the near future.
Government & Policy
- The European Commission recently convened a meeting entitled ‘Opening up to an ERA of Innovation’; open science highlights include an article from Günther H. Oettinger describing the forthcoming European Open Science Cloud, and a speech transcript from Carlos Moedas, the new commissioner for research, science & innovation.