Open Data and Materials

Do organisms need an impact factor? Citations of key biological resources including model organisms reveal usage patterns and impact

Research resources like transgenic animals and antibodies are the workhorses of biomedicine, enabling investigators to relatively easily study specific disease conditions. As key biological resources, transgenic animals and antibodies are often …

Draft dated 2016-01-11; please see cuLearn for possible updatesp.1PSYC 5601:Contemporary Research in Personality

This course will provide a survey of current personality research and theorywith an emphasis on recent discussions around methods and scientific reporting. We will consider recent accomplishments, questions, and controversies in personality …

Emerging Scientific Research Practices

This course aims to introduce students to current controversies and new developments in recommended scientific practices. The course is meant to help students think critically about how to conduct better empirical research and how to draw …

Endorsement of open science practices by dental journals: A meta-research study

Objectives This study evaluates the endorsement of open science practices by dental journals. Materials and methods This was a meta-research study that included journals listed in the 2021 Journal Citation Reports under Dentistry. A comprehensive …

Enhancing Public Access to the Results of Research Supported by the Department of Health and Human Services: Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief

The National Academies hosted a hybrid public workshop in Fall 2023, sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, to explore approaches that U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) agencies could consider as they develop or update …

ePlatypus: an ecosystem for computational analysis of immunogenomics data

Motivation The maturation of systems immunology methodologies requires novel and transparent computational frameworks capable of integrating diverse data modalities in a reproducible manner. Results Here, we present the ePlatypus computational …

Evaluation of Transparency and Openness Guidelines in Physical Therapy Journals

Objective The goals of this study were to evaluate the extent that physical therapy journals support open science research practices by adhering to the Transparency and Openness Promotion guidelines and to assess the relationship between journal …

Everything Hertz

A podcast about open science and psychology

Exploring regulatory flexibility to create novel incentives to optimize drug discovery

Efforts by governments, firms, and patients to deliver pioneering drugs for critical health needs face a challenge of diminishing efficiency in developing those medicines. While multi-sectoral collaborations involving firms, researchers, patients, …

Free and low cost resources for graduate students, postdocs, and early career researchers (or really anyone else)

A list of free or cheap resources (e.g. free and open statistical software) that support the processes of science