Questions concerning "Open Science", or research done in full view of the public eye, with a focus on accessibly and reproducibility, including tools to enable such access.
Questions tagged [open-science]
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What criteria does a research project need to match to be called open science?
What kind of formal or non-written rules/requirements does our project need to match and follow so we can say that our project is open science?
Is it only about research data which should be accessible to all?
What if the project doesn't make sense…
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An example of a researcher being 'scooped' as a result of working openly?
A reason that researchers sometimes give for not working in the open is the fear of having a publication 'scooped' by a competing researcher. Is there a clear, verifiable example where scooping has happened as a result of work being shared…
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Scientific hackathons or other intense voluntary bottom-up events
In programming there are many hackathons - intense voluntary one day-week events, where participants collaboratively attack problems. They may be proposed by a company, NGO, participants or a group; for qualification/profit, for fun or for a good…
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Are there any organisations which approve or manage open science projects?
Are there any organisations/foundations/hubs which manages/approve independent open science projects which are accepted and well recognised within mainstream scientific circles?
For instance, what if the published project doesn't make any sense and…
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What does "open" mean in science?
I understand that open science is based on open data, open access, open source, open methodology, etc.
However, what does "open" exactly mean in context when we talk about "open science"?
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Am I responsible for reproducing results if open-sourced code is bad?
In computational research, authors of publications are often required to open-source their code. However, while having open-sourced one's code improves chance for journal/conference acceptance, reviewers in general do not read code (for obvious…
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What's the current state of play of efforts to reform academic publishing to more open source like inclusion of non-significant results?
My understanding is that publishing model of academic research (i.e. publishing in journals) is a bit broken mostly in the sense that non-significant results are not published.
Key factors are:
Journals have a monetary incentive to publish…
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Providing APIs instead of directly providing data sets
Several academic paper hosts such as PubMed and Cochrane give some machine readable access to their data by providing APIs, but do not directly provide the data sets. Is there any reason why they don't provide some dumps of the data sets, aside…
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Is it possible to hide files on OSF?
Is there a way or option to hide a particular file in a repository on OSF (Open Science Framework) from users who access the repository with a view-only link?
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