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Misaligned Incentives Hurt Science, but We Can Fix Them

In this talk, Professor Corker shows how researchers are typically evaluated and contrasts that with ideal ways to evaluate the process of scientific output. Funding for open practices, infrastructure, and publication decisions made regardless of …

NIGMS Clearinghouse for Training Modules to Enhance Data Reproducibility

In January 2014, NIH launched a series of initiatives to enhance rigor and reproducibility in research. As a part of this initiative, NIGMS, along with nine other NIH institutes and centers, issued a funding opportunity announcement (FOA) …

No evidence of publication bias in climate change science

Non-significant results are less likely to be reported by authors and, when submitted for peer review, are less likely to be published by journal editors. This phenomenon, known collectively as publication bias, is seen in a variety of scientific …

On the reproducibility of science: unique identification of research resources in the biomedical literature

Scientific reproducibility has been at the forefront of many news stories and there exist numerous initiatives to help address this problem. We posit that a contributor is simply a lack of specificity that is required to enable adequate research …

Open + Reproducible Research Workshop

Topics covered: Understanding reproducible research Setting up a reproducible project Understanding power Preregistering your study Keeping track of things Containing bias Sharing your work

Open Access Directory

The Open Access Directory is an online compendium of factual lists about open access to science and scholarship, maintained by the community at large. It exists as a wiki hosted by the School of Library and Information Science at Simmons University …

Open Access Target Validation Is a More Efficient Way to Accelerate Drug Discovery

There is a scarcity of novel treatments to address many unmet medical needs. Industry and academia are finally coming to terms with the fact that the prevalent models and incentives for innovation in early stage drug discovery are failing to promote …

Open Access Tracking Project

OATP is a crowd-sourced social-tagging project running on free software to capture new developments on open access to research. Its mission is (1) to create real-time alerts for OA-related news and comment, and (2) to organize knowledge of the field, …

Open Developmental Science: An Overview and Annotated Reading List

The increasing adoption of open science practices in the last decade has been changing the scientific landscape across fields. However, developmental science has been relatively slow in adopting open science practices. To address this issue, we …

Open Education in Promotion, Tenure, and Faculty Development

This resource was developed by a working group from the Iowa Open Education Action Team (Iowa OER). Our team built upon DOERS3's OER in Tenure & Promotion Matrix to help faculty and staff advocate for the inclusion of open educational practices (OEP) …
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