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While many data sharing programs exist worldwide, widespread sharing of raw data has not yet won across-the-board acceptance in the scientific community, and the very existence of all these databases makes the approach fractured at best. The Data Sharing Project, launched last year by University of California-San Francisco Professor Michael Weiner, has two goals: One is to make widespread raw data sharing a reality — initially in the realm of medicine — through creation of a repository system accessible to all researchers; the second goal is to foster broad scientific support for this move and its adoption in other fields of research. While there is a long-established tradition in the scientific realm of collaborative efforts to enhance knowledge, this has generally been limited to the sharing of pre-prints.
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Open Notebook Science
Open Notebook Science is the practice of making the entire primary record of a research project publicly available online as it is recorded. This involves placing the personal, or laboratory, notebook of the researcher online along with all raw and processed data, and any associated material, as this material is generated. The approach may be summed up by the slogan 'no insider information'. It is the logical extreme of transparent approaches to research and explicitly includes the making available of failed, less significant, and otherwise unpublished experiments; so called 'Dark Data'. [ 1 ] The practice of Open Notebook Science, although not the norm in the academic community, has gained significant recent attention in the research, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] general, [ 1 ] [ 4 ] and peer-reviewed [ 5 ] media as part of a general trend towards more open approaches in research practice and publishing.knowledgeblog Project
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PLoS is pleased to announce the appointment of Cameron Neylon as Director of Advocacy. Cameron is well known in the scientific community, recognized for his professionalism, experience, vision and influence in scholarly publishing, communication, and research. His attendance at the Budapest Open Access Initiative meeting, advisory role for the Scholarly Communication in Africa Program, and leadership of the Open Society Foundation funded Beyond Impact project are recent examples of his focus on web technology to enhance research communication. After earning his PhD in Chemistry from Australian National University, Cameron worked as a Wellcome Trust International Fellow at the University of Bath; a lecturer in chemical biology at the University of Southampton; and most recently a senior scientist at the Science and Technology Facilities Council, UK. He has also served as an academic editor for PLoS ONE—one of many commitments he will transition prior to joining PLoS in early July.
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Announced today is the Directory of Open Access Books or DOAB. From the press release : DOAB will provide a searchable index to peer-reviewed monographs and edited volumes published under an Open Access business model, with links to the full texts of the publications at the publisher’s website or repository. The beta version of the service will contain publications of a selected number of academic publishers. The beta version will be made public early spring 2012. The DOAB will be launched by the Open Access Publishing in European Networks (OAPEN) Foundation.
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I believe that the academic paper is now obsolescent as the fundamental sharable description of a piece of research. In the future we will be sharing some other form of scholarly artefact, something which is digital and designed for reuse and to drop easily into the tooling of e-Research, and better suited to the emerging practices of data-centric researchers. These could be called Knowledge Objects or Publication Objects or whatever: I shall refer to them as Research Objects, because they capture research . Thus opened my August 2009 blog post " Replacing the paper: The Six Rs of the e-Research Record ", which provided a 6-point definition of the properties of these sharable Research Objects. This definition has evolved through many conversations and presentations so today I'm re-presenting it, revised, reordered and, err, resplendent in its greater numerosity.