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.
Government & Policy
- The World Health Organization has released a statement demanding the results of all medical clinical trials be published, in order to combat the effects of dissemination bias.
Tools & Projects
- Apple has released ResearchKit, a framework supporting the creation of medical apps using biosensors in current Apple devices, as an open source project on GitHub.
Events & Conferences
- NASA held its annual NASA Space Apps Challenge, a worldwide hackathon encouraging people to build and learn with a collection of open data sets released by the space agency.
Blogs & Papers
- Jon Udell blogged at PLOS on an update to his 2000 work, Internet Groupware for Scientific Collaboration. The update is entitled When Open Access is the norm, how do scientists work together online?, and reflects on where science on the web has come since the original report was published.
- April Wright wrote a compelling blog post describing her methods in pursuit of reproducibility on one of her recent papers; Wright eloquently makes the point that openness is not an all-or-nothing effort, and that ‘perfection’ in openness is neither possible nor required for efforts at reproducibility to be very valuable.
- Eva Amsen reviewed Ontspoorde Wetenschap (‘Derailed Science’), a book describing examples of research fraud and misconduct in the Netherlands by Frank van Kolfschooten. Van Kolfschooten concludes the book with the observation that the free dissemination of data would have prevented many of these failures of process from progressing as far as they did.
- Don’t miss F1000’s open science roundup from last week, written by our colleague Eva Amsen.