It's Time to Extend the FAIR Principles of Data Sharing
To create a research culture that makes the best use of available data, the FAIR principles need to be extended
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New Guide on Trusted Repositories: Promoting Open Science and Meeting Grant Requirements
New Guide on Trusted Repositories: Promoting Open Science and Meeting Grant Requirements
A new study provides a list of trusted repositories across different fields of research, with an assessment of their readiness to facilitate compliance with the Horizon Europe requirements.
Open with Care
Indigenous researchers and communities are reshaping how Western science thinks about data ownership.
Do Disappearing Data Repositories Pose a Threat to Open Science and the Scholarly Record?
Do Disappearing Data Repositories Pose a Threat to Open Science and the Scholarly Record?
Research data repositories play a vital role in ensuring research is reproducible, replicable and reusable. Yet, the infrastructure supporting them can be impermanent.
Open Educational Resources: Open Economics Guide Now Covers More Topics
Open Educational Resources: Open Economics Guide Now Covers More Topics
How Can Open Data Sharing Policies Be More Attentive to Qualitative Researchers?
How Can Open Data Sharing Policies Be More Attentive to Qualitative Researchers?
Open data practices are largely conceived and managed in ways that support quantitative, rather than qualitative data. Susie Weller outlines how an ethics of care is essential to making open qualitative data practical and ethical.
Comparing Data Policy Priorities Around the World
There are important differences in how countries treat and value data. This report compares key data policies in China, India, Singapore, the United Kingdom, and the European Union.
How to Make Your Scientific Data Accessible, Discoverable and Useful
Specialists offer seven tips for effectively sharing your data.
Data Sharing Varies Across Physics
Data sharing has been a success for large collaborations like CERN and LIGO. But what about small research groups with bespoke experimental setups?
READY, SET, SHARE!
As funders roll out new requirements for making data freely available, researchers weigh costs and benefits
Open Access Management - a New Domain?
Christian Grubak from ChronosHub and Josh Brown from MoreBrains share their thoughts on the transition to open access and the needs for its formalised management and collaborative community actions
New WHO Policy Requires Sharing of All Research Data
Science and public health can benefit tremendously from sharing and reuse of health data. The Research for Health department has helped spearhead the launch of a new policy from the Science Division which covers all research undertaken by or with support from WHO. The goal is to make sure that all research data is shared equitably, ethically and efficiently.
Perceptions and Behavior of Clinical Researchers and Research Support Staff Regarding Data FAIRification
Perceptions and Behavior of Clinical Researchers and Research Support Staff Regarding Data FAIRification
The FAIR Data Principles are being rapidly adopted by many research institutes and funders worldwide. This study assesses the awareness and attitudes of clinical researchers and research support staff regarding data FAIRification.
Time to Recognize Authorship of Open Data
The open data revolution won't happen unless the research system values the sharing of data as much as authorship on papers.
A Decade of Open Data in Research - Real Change or Slow Moving Compliance?
A Decade of Open Data in Research - Real Change or Slow Moving Compliance?
This post looks at the progress that's been made toward open research data -- what's been achieved, what still needs work, and what happens next?
NIH Issues a Seismic Mandate: Share Data Publicly
The data-sharing policy could set a global standard for biomedical research, scientists say, but they have questions about logistics and equity.
Swiss Scientific Institutions Adopt the Open Research Data Strategy Action Plan
The Open Research Data (ORD) Action Plan specifies the measures of the ORD Strategy published in July 2021. It represents a further step for Swiss institutions towards facilitating access to research data and thus Open Science.
Tracking Science: How Libraries Can Protect Data and Scientific Freedom
Tracking Science: How Libraries Can Protect Data and Scientific Freedom
How can libraries help to prevent tracking in science, thereby protecting the data of the researchers and, in an idealistic sense, scientific freedom?
A Survey of Researchers’ Needs and Priorities for Data Sharing
Problems with effective research data sharing persist and these problems have been quantified by previous research as a lack of time, resources, incentives, and/or skills to share data.
Application Profile for Machine-Actionable Data Management Plans
This paper presents the application profile for machine-actionable data management plans that allows information from traditional data management plans to be expressed in a machine-actionable way.
A Survey of Researchers’ Needs and Priorities for Data Sharing
Study investigates the importance of tasks associated with data sharing, and researchers’ satisfaction with their ability to complete these tasks.
Biology Must Generate Ideas As Well As Data
Data should be a means to knowledge, not an end in themselves.
Making Strides in Research Reporting - The Official PLOS Blog
Making Strides in Research Reporting - The Official PLOS Blog
PLOS keeps a watchful and enthusiastic eye on emerging research, and we update our policies as needed to address new challenges and opportunities that surface.
Swissuniversities Adopts the Open Research Data Strategy
By adopting the Open Research Data (ORD) Strategy, swissuniversities has taken a further step towards Open Science and follows on the existing Open Access strategy.
Open and Faster Scholarly Communication in a Post-COVID World - The Scholarly Kitchen
Open and Faster Scholarly Communication in a Post-COVID World - The Scholarly Kitchen
Liz Bal from Jisc discusses the scholarly publishing lessons learned from COVID-19, and how they can be applied to make research communication more efficient and effective.
Practical Guide to Sustainable Research Data
This Practical Guide provides guidance to ensure the long-term preservation and accessibility of research data, and supports organisations to provide a framework in which researchers can share their output in a sustainable way.
A study of the determinants of psychologists' data sharing and open data badge adoption
A study of the determinants of psychologists' data sharing and open data badge adoption
This study examines psychologists' motivations to share data and how to better promote psychologists' data sharing and open data badge adoption.
Joint Statement on Data Repository Criteria
Open Science requires a sustainable, trustworthy and comprehensive network of repositories that can support researchers around the world in managing, sharing and preserving their data, argue Science Europe, COAR, CoreTrustSeal, the European University Association, and the World Data System.
Strengthening the OA Publishing System Through Open Citations and Spatiotemporal Metadata
Strengthening the OA Publishing System Through Open Citations and Spatiotemporal Metadata
The BMBF project OPTIMETA aims to strengthen the Open Access publishing system by connecting open citations and spatiotemporal metadata from open access journals with openly accessible data sources.
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