Open Data and Materials

 

RPM: An open-source Rotation Platform for open- and closed-loop vestibular stimulation in head-fixed Mice

Head fixation allows the recording and presentation of controlled stimuli and is used to study neural processes underlying spatial navigation. However, it disrupts the head direction system because of the lack of vestibular stimulation. To overcome …

Scholarly Publishing as a Global Endeavor: Leveraging Open Source Software for Bibliodiversity

Each year, the Public Knowledge Project* (PKP) posts a very large, and rather dry, dataset at the Harvard Dataverse Project. This open data provides a summary of the known installations of PKP’s open source publishing software around the world (OJS …

Seek and you may (not) find: A multi-institutional analysis of where research data are shared

Research data sharing has become an expected component of scientific research and scholarly publishing practice over the last few decades, due in part to requirements for federally funded research. As part of a larger effort to better understand the …

ShareStats - The open statistics assessment itembank

ShareStats is the world’s largest public repository of open-source statistics assessment items, developed to support high-quality, data-informed education. This collaborative initiative brings together multiple Dutch universities and universities of …

Sharing brain imaging data in the Open Science era: how and why?

The sharing of human neuroimaging data has great potential to accelerate the development of imaging biomarkers in neurological and psychiatric disorders; however, major obstacles remain in terms of how and why to share data in the Open Science …

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 …

SMAAT

SMAAT (Sensor-based Mobile Application for Assessment and Tracking) lets you design studies, schedule experience sampling, and collect encrypted survey and sensor data from iOS and Android participants — with real-time compliance dashboards, …

SnapShot: Reporting practices for publishing results with human PSCs and tissue stem cells

This checklist is intended to help scientists, reviewers, and editors prepare and assess manuscripts for inclusion of critical details relevant to work with pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) and tissue stem cells (TSCs) with the goal of increasing the …

Sneaked references: Cooked reference metadata inflate citation counts

We report evidence of an undocumented method to manipulate citation counts involving 'sneaked' references. Sneaked references are registered as metadata for scientific articles in which they do not appear. This manipulation exploits trusted …

Social Identity and morality lab teaching

I believe that higher education should be focused on developing passionate, critical, independent and creative thought, and the transmission of knowledge should be in the service of developing these skills. In the classroom, I try to communicate the …
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