Open Data and Materials

 

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, …

Transdisciplinary Global Health Challenge (TGHC) - a transdisciplinary community engagement project to foster Open Science practices with marginalized communities

The Transdisciplinary Global Health Challenge (TGHC) is an educational module, implemented within the Global Health minor programme at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. In this module, students from diverse disciplinary backgrounds work together with …

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 …

Turtle and Hare Workshops: Exchanging software skills from beginner to experienced

Scientific findings often hinge on a single, opaque set of analytical decisions, obscuring how alternative approaches might affect results. The Journal of Robustness Reports (JRR) directly tackles this issue. As a new Diamond Open Access journal, it …

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 …

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.

Using the 'Transparency Checklist Guidelines' as an Educational tool

As an educational tool, the Checklist can be used to teach and improve the standards of transparency and credibility in research reports made by students. The aim is that students are embedded in transparent and open practices from the beginning of …

VA Big Data Science: A Model for Improved National Pandemic Response Present and Future

Background The US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) enterprise approach to research (VA Research) has built a data-sharing framework available to all research teams within VA. Combined with robust analytic systems and tools available for …