Open Data and Materials

 

The what, why, and how of born-open data

Although many researchers agree that scientific data should be open to scrutiny to ferret out poor analyses and outright fraud, most raw data sets are not available on demand. There are many reasons researchers do not open their data, and one is …

Tópicos Especiais em Biotecnologia: Planejamento e Otimização de Experimentos

A crise de confiança na ciência. Práticas e condutas questionáveis na pesquisa. Delineamento experimental adequado. Definição de variáveis. Armadilhas à validade. Cálculo amostral. Transparência na pesquisa. Pré-registro. Dados e código aberto.

Topics in Social Psychology and Personality

This seminar class will focus on the theme of Reproducibility in Social Psychology. We will discuss issues surrounding open science as well as the “replication crisis” in social psychology.

Toward a 21st Century National Data Infrastructure: Managing Privacy and Confidentiality Risks with Blended Data

Protecting privacy and ensuring confidentiality in data is a critical component of modernizing our national data infrastructure. The use of blended data - combining previously collected data sources - presents new considerations for responsible data …

Towards building a trustworthy pipeline integrating Neuroscience Gateway and Open Science Chain

When the scientific dataset evolves or is reused in workflows creating derived datasets, the integrity of the dataset with its metadata information, including provenance, needs to be securely preserved while providing assurances that they are not …

Towards reproducible radiomics research: introduction of a database for radiomics studies

Objectives To investigate the model-, code-, and data-sharing practices in the current radiomics research landscape and to introduce a radiomics research database. Methods A total of 1254 articles published between January 1, 2021, and December 31, …

Transparent and Open Social Science Research course

Demand is growing for evidence-based policy making, but there is also growing recognition in the social science community that limited transparency and openness in research have contributed to widespread problems. With this course, you can explore …

Understanding the provenance and qualityof methods is essential for responsible reuseof FAIR data

Data availability and reusability are critical to open research. The FAIR principles provide a minimal set of guiding principles for making data findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable. Open data are not necessarily FAIR, and FAIR data are …

Understanding the value of curation: A survey of US data repository curation practices and perceptions

Data curators play an important role in assessing data quality and take actions that may ultimately lead to better, more valuable data products. This study explores the curation practices of data curators working within US-based data repositories. We …

Universities should put educational materials online and make them free

Plan E for Education is my proposal that a proportion of the educational resources generated in publicly funded universities be made freely available for sharing and use by others. This would be the educational equivalent of initiatives that require …