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Wellcome’s New Policy on Sharing Research Data
What it means for researchers.
What Does It Mean to Share 'Raw Data'?
It turns out that defining "raw" is a little trickier than it might seem.
Big Pharma Buys Into Crowdsourcing for Drug Discovery
The Structural Genomics Consortium encourages pharma companies and academics to put all their cards on the table in the interest of speeding up drug research.
Availability of Open Reference Data Nears 50% as Major Societies and Influential Publishers Endorse the Initiative for Open Citations
Availability of Open Reference Data Nears 50% as Major Societies and Influential Publishers Endorse the Initiative for Open Citations
In the three months following the Initiative for Open Citations' launch, the percentage of articles with open reference data has moved from 40% to over 45%.
New ORFG Resource Provides Guidance to Funders Developing Open Policies
A guide intended to help research funders develop open policies that advance their organizational values.
Locking Science Open with Decentralized Scientific Archives
In a decentralized architecture, anyone has the ability to download and re-host data without changing it's permanent identifier.
FAIR Is Not Fair Enough
FAIR doesn’t actually require the data or software to be openly available.
Accelerating Public Data Release by Automating Detection of Overdue Datasets
Introducing Wide-Open, a system that identifies large number of overdue datasets.
Empty Rhetoric over Data Sharing Slows Science
It is surely misguided for funding agencies — for instance, the Swiss National Science Foundation — to prohibit the use of commercial data platforms by grant-holders.
Making Public Data Public
Computational scientists develop a system for spotting data overdue for public release, and end up getting hundreds of open-access datasets corrected.
New Science Data-Sharing Rules Are Two Scoops of Disappointment
The rules fail to make data sharing mandatory for papers to be published, which raises the prospect that some authors might decide to ignore the hint.
Our Path to Better Science in Less Time Using Open Data Science Tools
Our Path to Better Science in Less Time Using Open Data Science Tools
How several free software tools have fundamentally upgraded our approach to collaborative research, making our entire workflow more transparent and streamlined.
Austrian Science Fund Open Research Data Pilot Report
Austrian Science Fund Open Research Data Pilot Report
Supporting the development of new models for open research data in the digital age.
Why Open Source Pharma Is the Path to Both Cheaper and New Medicines
Breaking the cycle in which only highly profitable drugs reach the market is not just the responsibility of government.
soll Tausende Arbeitsplätze schaffen (IST BEREITS IM COM MEDIENSPIEGEL :-D)
Open Data soll Tausende Arbeitsplätze schaffen Am 16. September lanciert der Bund ein Open-Data-Internetportal. Verschiedene Bundesämter stellen dort der Öffentlichkeit Behördendaten frei verwendbar über eine zentrale Plattform zur Verfügung. Der Bund verfügt über umfangreiche Datenbestände von hoher Qualität. Heute sind diese Daten dezentral abgelegt. Einen Teil davon will der Bund ab dem 16.
A plea for open science on Zika
20 funding organizations and public funding agencies from 11 countries promise that they will require grantees to have plans in place for sharing their results and data ASAP.
Montreal institute going 'open' to accelerate science
The Montreal Neurological Institute plans to free up its findings, including data that point to connections between brain regions communicating at different neural rhythms.
Public data archiving in ecology and evolution
This paper highlights key guidelines to help authors increase their data’s reuse potential and compliance with journal data policies.
Data sharing
Two NEJM editors say data sharing should happen symbiotically, not parasitically.
Research data in core journals in biology, chemistry, mathematics, and physics
Research data in core journals in biology, chemistry, mathematics, and physics
Biology top journals share original data at the highest rate, and physics top journals share at the lowest rate.
The data sharing advantage in astrophysics
Study presenting evidence for the existence of a citation advantage within astrophysics for papers that link to data.
The economic impact of open data: what do we already know?
Open data fuels economic growth. Many believe in the theory and ask for the proof. A new report by Nesta and the ODI adds to the evidence of the impact of open data.
