Open Data and Materials

 

Paving the way for greater open science in sports and exercise medicine: navigating the barriers to adopting open and accessible data practices

Sport healthcare and performance support practitioners require data to inform clinical and performance decisions, identify risk factors and investigate the efficacy and effectiveness of different interventions. Data sharing is a key component to …

Shifting medical education: the impact of open educational resources

Medical education has undergone a transformative shift along with the integration of open educational resources (OERs) in recent years. Examining the impact through initiatives like Project Tulip, this article explores how OERs have revolutionized …

SPIRO – the automated Petri plate imaging platform designed by biologists, for biologists

Phenotyping of model organisms grown on Petri plates is often carried out manually, despite the procedures being time-consuming and laborious. The main reason for this is the limited availability of automated phenotyping facilities, whereas …

US project seeks standard way to communicate research retractions

Retracted papers continue to be cited because notices are unclear and hard to spot. Information scientist Jodi Schneider explains how consistent reporting would help to keep researchers in the loop.

Number of countries with open science policies has almost doubled since adoption of UNESCO Recommendation

Eleven countries have introduced open science policies, strategies and legislative frameworks since the adoption of the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science two years ago, according to the UNESCO Open Science Outlook 1: Status and Trends Around the …

Open Intro Statistics

OpenIntro Statistics is a dynamic take on the traditional curriculum, being successfully used at Community Colleges to the Ivy League

Open, rigorous and reproducible research: A practitioner’s handbook

This book starts from the premise that there is a lot we can all do to increase the benefits of research. Let’s consider the main limitations of research that is not carried out and shared in an open, transparent, and reproducible way: If papers …

How to make data open? Stop overlooking librarians

Digital archivists are already experts at tackling the complex challenges of making research data open and accessible. We can help to smooth the transition.

An Open Science MRI Database of over 100 Synaesthetic Brains and Accompanying Deep Phenotypic Information

We provide a neuroimaging database consisting of 102 synaesthetic brains using state-of-the-art 3 T MRI protocols from the Human Connectome Project (HCP) which is freely available to researchers. This database consists of structural (T1- and …

Bringing institutional multidisciplinary repositories into the FAIR picture

The FAIR Principles are a set of good practices to improve the reproducibility and quality of data in an Open Science context. Different sets of indicators have been proposed to evaluate the FAIRness of digital objects, including datasets that are …
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