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Archives: open data

Guest Post — No Data? No Acceptance. How IOP Publishing is Strengthening Open Science

Nicola Davies from IOPP details the publisher’s new data sharing requirements for authors.

  • By Nicola Davies
  • Apr 1, 2025
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Does Altering A Dataset Merit Retraction?

Self-archiving on personal sites is perfectly permitted under many journal data policies. But what happens when an author alters the underlying data?

  • By Phil Davis
  • Jan 17, 2025
  • 6 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Variability, Irregular Publisher Metadata, and the Ongoing Evolution of Databases Complicates Reproducibility in Bibliometrics Research

Bibliometric databases are essential tools for research and publishing strategy. But the variability in how they parse publisher metadata and their constant evolution makes it difficult, if not impossible, to exactly reproduce any given piece of research.

  • By David Crotty
  • Aug 15, 2024
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Honest Signaling and Research Integrity

Promoting research integrity is not just identifying bad behavior: problem articles can also be detected by the absence of ‘honest’ signals of integrity.

  • By Tim Vines, Ben Kaube
  • Apr 16, 2024
  • 18 Comments
  • Time To Read: 3 mins

Guest Post — Speak Finance: Gain University Support for Open Scholarship

The federal government is mandating that the knowledge and data produced from federal grants be widely available for our collective good. Libraries remain under-resourced to make this happen. Let’s add some new metrics and language to this narrative to help articulate the value of libraries.

  • By Hilary Craiglow
  • Apr 9, 2024
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Who Would Have Thought That We Needed Another Listserv?

Open Café, a new listserv dedicated to the free and open discussion of open scholarship has been met with enthusiasm by the scholarly communication community.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Feb 5, 2024
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 3 mins

Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Jennifer Gibson of Dryad

Today in Kitchen Essentials, Alice Meadows interviews Jennifer Gibson, Executive Director of the Dryad data repository.

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Nov 22, 2023
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

How Does Mandated Code-sharing Change Peer Review? An Interview with PLOS Computational Biology

In today’s Peer Review Week guest post, Joe Pold of PLOS interviews the senior editorial team of PLOS Computational Biology about their experience of mandating code sharing for the journal, and its impact on peer review

  • By Joe Pold
  • Sep 26, 2023
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post — Are We Providing What Researchers Need in the Transition to Open Science?

There are still barriers and hesitations around open research practices. Erika Pastrana and Simon Adar suggest that publishers and technology platforms can better support authors and drive uptake.

  • By Erika Pastrana, Simon Adar
  • Feb 2, 2023
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Guest Post – How Do We Measure Success for Open Science?

Iain Hrynaszkiewicz discusses PLOS’s Open Science Indicators initiatives and shares initial results.

  • By Iain Hrynaszkiewicz
  • Dec 13, 2022
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

FORCE11 and COPE Release Recommendations on Data Publishing Ethics for Publishers and Repositories: A Discussion with the Working Group Leadership

FORCE11 and COPE release recommendations on data publishing ethics for researchers, publishers, and editors.

  • By Todd A Carpenter, Matt Cannon
  • Oct 20, 2022
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Guest Post — The Door to Data Sharing is Slowly Creaking Open

In guest post, Simon Linacre of Digital Science discusses their latest state of open data survey against the backdrop of the recent OSTP memo on expanding public access to research results.

  • By Simon Linacre
  • Oct 17, 2022
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Guest Post: A Decade of Open Data in Research — Real Change or Slow Moving Compliance?

Mark Hahnel looks at the progress that’s been made toward open research data — what’s been achieved, what still needs work, and what happens next?

  • By Mark Hahnel
  • Mar 30, 2022
  • 9 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Articles Are the Fundamental Unit of Data Sharing

The FAIR principles answer the ‘How’ question for sharing research data, but we also need consensus on the ‘What’ question.

  • By Tim Vines
  • Sep 3, 2020
  • 22 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

The Tyranny of Unintended Consequences: Richard Poynder on Open Access and the Open Access Movement

A recent opinion paper by Richard Poynder @rickypo offers analysis and prognostication with regard to the current state and future prospects of #openaccess and the open access movement.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Nov 25, 2019
  • 33 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

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