COS | Openness, Reproducibility, and Integrity. An open distributed search engine for science. TL;DR: I’ve started building a distributed search engine for scholarly literature, which is completely contained within a browser extension: install it from the Chrome Web Store. It uses WebRTC and magic, and is currently, like, right now, used by 343 people.
It’s you who can be number 344. A few months ago, while attending Software Sustainability Institute’s workshop on software in reproducible research, I stumbled upon a problem. I was building a ruby-toolbox clone for scientific software, ScienceToolbox, which makes it easier for scientists to find the best software based on the number of software citations (link to repository or paper) and software quality (automated tests, stars and forks on GitHub, continuous integration, etc.). To my knowledge, such a service did not previously exist, which made it very hard to find great scientific software. But in order to do that, I need data about which software is used in what paper. And boy is this data hard to come by. So what do you do? ScienceToolbox - Open science software. R-Forge: vegan - Community Ecology Package: Project Home.
Academic Torrents. OSM - Open Source Malaria. Large-Scale Open Access for Research and Outreach. Posted by Paul Ginsparg, Ph.D. on June 20, 2013 at 05:48 PM EDT Paul Ginsparg is being honored as a Champion of Change for the vision he has demonstrated and for his commitment to open science. In 1991, before the WorldWideWeb, before the general population was even aware of the internet, physicists had already begun to share pre-publication versions of their articles via email.
As a research staff member at Los Alamos National Laboratory, I was concerned that this private sharing unintentionally gave privileged access to more established researchers. To help rectify the situation, I set up a centralized automated repository and alerting system, making cutting-edge full-text articles accessible to anyone with internet access. By 1993, the advent of the WorldWideWeb suggested ever broader possibilities, with research communication for all fields ported to the new on-line medium. Paul Ginsparg is a Professor of Physics and Information Science at Cornell University. DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals.
PLOS Medicine: A Peer-Reviewed Open-Access Journal. Open Science Federation | to open science. Figshare - credit for all your research. Access2research. Open Access Victory in Successful Access2Research Petition. Earlier this week, an Access2Research petition supporting open access — specifically free access over the Internet to academic articles arising from taxpayer-funder research — crossed its target of 25,000 signatures, two weeks ahead of schedule. The Obama administration has promised to respond to petitions that pass that threshold, so the issue of access to research should be firmly on the White House agenda.
As well it should be. The open access movement, which began well over a decade ago, is garnering more and more attention lately. Earlier this year, we saw the resounding defeat of the misguided Research Works Act, which would have severely restricted the amount of research that could be released under open access conditions. Of course, open access has long had the support of many scholars and major universities. But now non-academics are paying attention, too, as the 25,000 signatures on the Access2Research petition attest. Well said.