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
- Virginia Barbour flagged a recent move by Elsevier to scale back authors’ rights to disseminate open access versions of their manuscripts. The publishing giant plans to ban authors from uploading their manuscripts to preprint servers unless they pay a fee or wait an embargo period.
- Dalmeet Singh Chawla recently reported in Nature progress made on the Research Resource Identifier (RRID), a standard introduced by the NIH last year “for referencing antibodies, model organisms and software” in the literature. A federated database of RRIDs currently in circulation can be found here.
- Larissa Shamseer reflected on the need for an article-level transparency index, not unlike the work being done on transparency in peer review over at PRE-val.
- In the wake of the recent controversy over the criticism and retraction request for LaCour (2014), Thomas Leeper wrote an interesting lo-fi proposal for fraud prevention involving a system of procedural checks and balances; the New York Times also printed their own summary of the event.
Conferences & Events
- Registration for the 19th International Conference on Electronic Publishing in Malta on 1-3 September is currently open. This year’s meeting will emphasize electronic publishing at scale, focusing on the growing volume of publications online, and on consumption of these resources by the public.
- The Mozilla Science Global Sprint is this Thursday & Friday, 4-5 June. If you haven’t added your name to a site or to the list of remote participants, please do, and check out the list of projects we’ll be working on worldwide this week.