{"id":1782,"date":"2015-03-23T08:00:05","date_gmt":"2015-03-23T15:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mozscienceblog.wpengine.com\/?p=1782"},"modified":"2019-02-28T12:40:39","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T20:40:39","slug":"mozilla-science-lab-week-in-review-march-16-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/mozilla-science\/mozilla-science-lab-week-in-review-march-16-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozilla Science Lab Week in Review, March 16-22"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Week in Review is our weekly roundup of what&#8217;s new in open science from the past week. If you have news or announcements you&#8217;d like passed on to the community, be sure to share on Twitter with @mozillascience and @billdoesphysics, or join our <a href=\"https:\/\/mail.mozilla.org\/listinfo\/mozillascience\">mailing list<\/a> and get in touch there.<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/teabass\">Andrew Nesbitt<\/a> has <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@teabass\/solving-open-source-discovery-db43a04cd9e7\">launched libraries.io<\/a>, a project to help tackle the discoverability challenge in open source and open science software. By leveraging the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/PageRank\">PageRank algorithm<\/a>, Nesbitt hopes to represent what is actually being used (rather than what is simply admired) to better represent the true workhorses of open source.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/centerforopenscience.org\/\">Center for Open Science<\/a> began <a href=\"https:\/\/osf.io\/sqr3m\/wiki\/home\/?view_only=452a5ec31143482aabcbabc9743a8ad0\">composing a wiki<\/a> on the arguments and motivations for open science\u00a0part of a \u201cgrowing open source, open science\u201d meeting that Titus Brown and Kaitlin Thaney co-organized last week. The new wiki explores ways we can work together better across open science initiatives &#8211; watch their space for developments, and get in touch there to contribute!<\/li>\n<li>The Wikimedia Foundation has <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.wikimedia.org\/2015\/03\/18\/wikimedia-open-access-policy\/\">adopted an open access policy<\/a> to support the free reuse of research produced with their support.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/se_hampton\">Stephanie Hampton<\/a> et al have submitted a preprint of &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/peerj.com\/preprints\/549\/\">The Tao of Open Science for Ecology<\/a>&#8216;, a paper outlining a roadmap to understanding and participating in open science. This paper got its start as a collaborative discussion at the <a href=\"http:\/\/nceas.github.io\/open-science-codefest\/\">NCEAS Codefest in 2014<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>GitHub added <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/blog\/1974-pdf-viewing\">PDF rendering<\/a> to their services last week.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosbiology\/\">PLOS Biology<\/a> published <a href=\"http:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosbiology\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pbio.1001975\">recommendations for the role of publishers<\/a> in the dissemination of open data.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Paraphyso\">Jojo Scoble<\/a> wrote a great <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digital-science.com\/blog\/guest\/why-scientists-should-share-their-data\/\">blog post<\/a> for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digital-science.com\/\">Digital Science<\/a> describing her experiences sharing her data openly, and why other researchers should consider it. On the common worry of whether a dataset is &#8216;good&#8217; enough to publish, Scoble quoted her former supervisor:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>\u201c<i>You could spend years trying to collect the perfect data set when you should be publishing what you have, which is enough<\/i>.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/index.jsp\">National Science Foundation<\/a> in the US <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/news\/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=134478\">announced a plan<\/a> to accommodate comprehensive public access to research results; in it, the &#8220;<em>NSF will require that articles in peer-reviewed scholarly journals and papers in juried conference proceedings or transactions be deposited in a public access compliant repository and be available for download, reading and analysis within one year of publication.<\/em>&#8220;<\/li>\n<li>The Fair Access to Research and Technology (<a href=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/hoap\/Notes_on_the_Fair_Access_to_Science_and_Technology_Research_Act\">FASTR<\/a>) act was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guidrynews.com\/story.aspx?id=1000068324\">reintroduced recently to the US Congress<\/a>. Successor to the Federal Research Public Access Act, FASTR introduces, among other provisions, an emphasis on reuse and correct attribution.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ploscollections.org\/\">PLOS Collections<\/a> has showcased a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ploscollections.org\/article\/browse\/issue\/info:doi\/10.1371\/issue.pcol.v02.i39\">collection of negative results<\/a>, underscoring the importance of publishing such studies to the broader scientific community.<\/li>\n<li>In a similar vein, <a href=\"http:\/\/press3.mcs.anl.gov\/errorworkshop\/\">submissions are open<\/a> for the ERROR conference, highlighting negative results in Munich, Germany on 3-4 September.<\/li>\n<li>UNESCO <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unesco.org\/new\/en\/communication-and-information\/resources\/news-and-in-focus-articles\/all-news\/news\/unescos_open_access_oa_curriculum_is_now_online#.VQ9z2GZj-2x\">recently put<\/a> its open access curriculum online; the content is targeted at librarians and researchers, and emphasizes topics from introducing open access, to intellectual property rights to how to share your work in an open access model.<\/li>\n<li>Also in partnership with UNESCO, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fosteropenscience.eu\/\">Foster Open Science<\/a> is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fosteropenscience.eu\/event\/foster-unesco-open-science-doctoral-schools\">hosting a two-day Open Science Workshop<\/a> for European graduate school administrators in order to &#8216;<em>construct a roadmap for making Open Science certifiable and standard training for future graduates<\/em>&#8216;.<\/li>\n<li>Tom Baden et al recently published <a href=\"http:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosbiology\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pbio.1002086\">an article on 3D printing your own lab equipment<\/a>, in order to mitigate the costs and hurdles to setting up a research program.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org\/\">The Scholarly Kitchen<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org\/2015\/03\/11\/advancing-research-communication-scholarship-an-interview-with-robin-champieux-and-jill-emery-about-this-new-conference\/\">recently interviewed<\/a> two of the founders of Advancing Research and Communication Scholarship (ARCS), a new conference coming April 26-28 in Philadelphia &#8216;<em>designed to provide a broad and collaborative forum for addressing and affecting scholarly and scientific communication.<\/em>&#8216; (- Alice Meadows, Scholarly Kitchen)<\/li>\n<li>Chris Parr wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeshighereducation.co.uk\/news\/why-publish-and-be-so-damned-hard-to-find\/2019144.article\">an article<\/a> for Times Higher Education on Carol Goble&#8217;s work and comments on the hurdles created by ostentation in scholarly communication and questions raised by the failure to distribute both data and code.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/sulab.org\/\">Su Lab<\/a> is holding a <a href=\"http:\/\/sulab.org\/2015\/03\/1st-bd2k-3rd-network-of-biothings-hackathon\/\">hackathon<\/a> on biomedical big data, May 7-9.<\/li>\n<li>Finally, don&#8217;t miss <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/mozillascience\/studyGroupLessons\/blob\/master\/whereWeAre.geojson\">our map of hacky hours and study groups<\/a> &#8211; and if you know of anyone running a meetup about coding for researchers, let us know so we can add you to the map!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Week in Review is our weekly roundup of what&#8217;s new in open science from the past week. 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