Open Data and Materials

 

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 …

What does Open Science mean for Educational Technology Research? Challenges, Opportunities, and a Call for Research

Educational technology (EdTech) research should champion the values of open science in order to be robust, methodologically rigorous, collaborative, inclusive, and transparent. ‘Open science’ is, broadly, an approach to scientific scholarship that …

When is science (un)reliable?

In this course, we will explore the so‐called “reproducibility crisis” that has struck fields from psychology and economics to ecology and cancer biology. You will learn statistical principles at the heart of the reproducibility crisis, how disregard …

Who Re-Uses Data? A Bibliometric Analysis of Dataset Citations

Open data is receiving increased attention and support in academic environments, with one justification being that shared data may be re-used in further research. But what evidence exists for such re-use, and what is the relationship between the …

Who Would Have Thought That We Needed Another Listserv?

About two months ago, I published an interview with Richard Poynder in which he discussed his recent announcement that he was “signing off from reporting on open access,” because “the movement has failed and is being rebranded in order to obscure the …

Willingness to share research data is related to the strength of the evidence and the quality of reporting of statistical results

Background: The widespread reluctance to share published research data is often hypothesized to be due to the authors’ fear that reanalysis may expose errors in their work or may produce conclusions that contradict their own. However, these …

You are not so smart

Psychology is working on the hardest problems in all of science. Physics, astronomy, geology — those are easy, by comparison. Understanding consciousness, willpower, ideology, social change – there’s a larger-than-Large-Hadron-Collider level of …

ZooTraits: An R shiny app for exploring animal trait data for ecological and evolutionary research

Animal trait data are scattered across several datasets, making it challenging to compile and compare trait information across different groups. For plants, the TRY database has been an unwavering success for those ecologists interested in addressing …