Open Data and Materials

 

Developing an open educational resource for open research: Protocol for the PaPOR TRAIL project

Background: Open research involves actions at all stages of the research cycle to make the research process and outputs more transparent and accessible. Though a number of initiatives exist for researchers at PhD, post-doctoral and more senior …

Development of an open access, virtual bioinformatics lab for students in medical laboratory sciences

Objectives Despite the growing importance of bioinformatics in molecular diagnostics, not all medical laboratory sciences (MLS) programs provide instruction in this field. We developed and assessed a virtual laboratory learning unit to introduce …

Diversifying Research Methods Syllabi

This is a collection of research methodology articles, which are first- or senior-authored by women, to promote diverse perspectives in teaching students about research methods and contributing to improving research practices.

Do organisms need an impact factor? Citations of key biological resources including model organisms reveal usage patterns and impact

Research resources like transgenic animals and antibodies are the workhorses of biomedicine, enabling investigators to relatively easily study specific disease conditions. As key biological resources, transgenic animals and antibodies are often …

Draft dated 2016-01-11; please see cuLearn for possible updatesp.1PSYC 5601:Contemporary Research in Personality

This course will provide a survey of current personality research and theorywith an emphasis on recent discussions around methods and scientific reporting. We will consider recent accomplishments, questions, and controversies in personality …

Editorial: Open Science and Ethics

Academic institutions in Europe (e.g. universities, research funding institutions, academies) are increasingly committing themselves to ‘open science’ principles (see e.g. http://openscienceasap. org/open-science/). Those principles are increasingly …

Editorial: Open science in consciousness research

All of us involved in the mind and brain sciences, in whatever capacity, are increasingly aware of the importance of ensuring the credibility of our research. This credibility—which for experimental work turns on its reliability—is particularly …

Editors at Philosophy & Public Affairs Resign; Will Launch New OA Journal

The executive, associate, and advisory editors and all of the editorial board members of one of the most influential journals in moral and political philosophy, Philosophy & Public Affairs, have resigned en masse.

Emerging Scientific Research Practices

This course aims to introduce students to current controversies and new developments in recommended scientific practices. The course is meant to help students think critically about how to conduct better empirical research and how to draw …

Enabling Data Discovery with the Astrobiology Resource Metadata Standard

As scientific investigations increasingly adopt Open Science practices, reuse of data becomes paramount. However, despite decades of progress in internet search tools, finding relevant astrobiology datasets for an envisioned investigation remains …