US Government Considers Charging for Popular Earth-Observing Data
Images from Landsat satellites and agricultural-survey programme are freely available to scientists - but for how long?
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Recommendation on Access to and Preservation of Scientific Information
Recommendation on Access to and Preservation of Scientific Information
Commission Recommendation of 25 April 2018 on access to and preservation of scientific information.
Facebook Shuts the Gate After the Horse Has Bolted, and Hurts Real Research in the Process
Facebook Shuts the Gate After the Horse Has Bolted, and Hurts Real Research in the Process
Facebook has recently announced a substantial tightening of access restrictions to the APIs of Facebook, Instagram, and other platforms it owns. While these changes may generate some positive publicity for the company, they are likely to compound the real problem, further diminishing transparency and opportunities for independent oversight.
Machine Learning Spots Treasure Trove of Elusive Viruses
Artificial intelligence could speed up metagenomic studies that look for species unknown to science.
Practical Decentralization of Scholarly Data & Resources
It’s time for scholars to ask whether today’s data preservation technologies align with open scholarship’s values of access, preservation, privacy, and transparency.
China Issues Regulations for Improving Security and Management of Scientific Data
China Issues Regulations for Improving Security and Management of Scientific Data
The regulations issued by the State Council aim to improve the management, security, accuracy, and openness of scientific data.
Elsevier Launches Mendeley Data to Manage Entire Lifecycle of Research Data
Elsevier Launches Mendeley Data to Manage Entire Lifecycle of Research Data
Elsevier has launched Mendeley Data, a new, cloud-based platform designed to help universities and researchers manage, share and showcase their research data. With Mendeley Data, researchers can safely record and share research data while improving its reuse via publication, while universities can showcase institutional outputs and improve their collaboration rate.
Cambridge Analytica Controversy Must Spur Researchers to Update Data Ethics
Cambridge Analytica Controversy Must Spur Researchers to Update Data Ethics
A scandal over an academic’s use of Facebook data highlights the need for research scrutiny.
Data Management Made Simple
Keeping your research data freely available is crucial for open science — and your funding could depend on it.
Navigating the Unfolding Open Data Landscape in Ecology and Evolution
Navigating the Unfolding Open Data Landscape in Ecology and Evolution
An overview of the landscape of online data infrastructures, and highlight the key points to consider when using open data.
PLOS Criteria for Recommended Data Repositories
A set of criteria behind PLOS recommended data repositories.
High-Quality Science Requires High-Quality Open Data Infrastructure
FAIRsharing.org: a series of open data resources and tools, and an outlet for the developers and maintainers of these resources to emphasize the approach they take to ensure the data they host and serve are increasingly FAIR.
DMTPTool.org: An Online Data Management Plan Tool
A free, open-source, online application that helps researchers create data management plans complying with funder requirements.
New Initiative to Align Research Data Management Policy Across Europe
New Initiative to Align Research Data Management Policy Across Europe
Science Europe and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research have launched an initiative for the voluntary international alignment of research data management policies.
Open Access, Data Capitalism and Academic Publishing
There is a significant discrepancy between the reality of academic publishing and the optimism of politicians and science functionaries who praise Open Access as a panacea for all the ills afflicting science culture.
Faced with Public Pressure, Research Institutions Step up Reporting of Clinical Trial Results
Faced with Public Pressure, Research Institutions Step up Reporting of Clinical Trial Results
The reporting of clinical trial results to a public database has improved sharply in the last two years, with universities and other nonprofit research centers leading the way.
Attitudes and Norms Affecting Scientists' Data Reuse
Article showing that the perceived efficacy and efficiency of data reuse are strong predictors of reuse behavior, and that the perceived importance of data reuse corresponds to greater reuse.
Engaging Researchers with Good Data Management: Perspectives from Engaged Individuals
Engaging Researchers with Good Data Management: Perspectives from Engaged Individuals
On the need to recognise good practice, engage researchers early in their career with research data management and use peers to talk to those who are not ‘onboard’.
Spotting Shady Statistics
When statistical fudging is buried in the way data are sliced and diced after the fact or put through tortured analysis in a search for significant results.
Clinical Trial Reporting for Pharma-Sponsored Trials Shows Improvement
Clinical Trial Reporting for Pharma-Sponsored Trials Shows Improvement
The Good Pharma Scorecard finds some big pharmaceutical companies are meeting legal standards for disclosing results—but many studies still go unreported.
Text and Data Mining with allofPLOS
Text and data mining made easy with the allofPLOS project. Parsing tools together with the entire corpus of PLOS research articles for download.
Update on the Data Stewardship Project at TU Delft: 3 Months' Progress Report
Fostering collaboration and good data practices in faculties.
Software Heritage: Preserves Software Source Code for Present and Future Generations
Software Heritage: Preserves Software Source Code for Present and Future Generations
The preservation of software has become as essential as preserving research articles and data sets.
Can a Checklist Improve the Quality of Reporting of Clinical Trials?
On the important role of professional medical writers in improving the quality of reports on clinical trials.
Data Sharing from Clinical Trials — A Research Funder’s Perspective
Data Sharing from Clinical Trials — A Research Funder’s Perspective
The Wellcome Trust, the Medical Research Council, Cancer Research UK, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation share a common vision for maximizing the value of data that are generated through the trials they fund.
LERU Identifies 4 Golden Principles to Underpin Europe’s Medium-sized Research Infrastructures
LERU Identifies 4 Golden Principles to Underpin Europe’s Medium-sized Research Infrastructures
The League of European Research Universities (LERU) proposes four golden principles for enhancing the competitiveness of medium-sized research infrastructures in Europe.
Policy Design and Implementation for Research Data Management in Development Research
Policy Design and Implementation for Research Data Management in Development Research
Investigating the implementation of data management and sharing requirements within development research projects.
Idea Farming for Open Science: Sharing Wider Scientific Outputs Will Stimulate Ideas, Discoveries and Outcomes
Idea Farming for Open Science: Sharing Wider Scientific Outputs Will Stimulate Ideas, Discoveries and Outcomes
Ideas and data can interact, and our work can certainly benefit from the bad ideas that, in the short-term, do not seem to directly benefit discovery.
Collaboration and Concerted Action Are Key to Making Open Data a Reality
Collaboration and Concerted Action Are Key to Making Open Data a Reality
How to make widespread open data a reality.
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