The economic impact of open data: what do we already know?
Open data fuels economic growth. Many believe in the theory and ask for the proof. A new report by Nesta and the ODI adds to the evidence of the impact of open data.
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Data Carpentry: workshops to increase data literacy for researchers
Data Carpentry workshops teach skills to researchers to enable them to retrieve, view, manipulate, analyze and store their and other’s data in an open and reproducible way in order to extract knowledge from data.
What drives academic data sharing?
Research policies that better incentivise data sharing are needed to improve the quality of research results and foster scientific progress.
It’s a matter of sticks and carrots
Bernard Rentier explains how the University of Liege persuaded nearly all its researchers to put their papers in its institutional repository.
"WikiGate" raises questions about Wikipedia's commitment to open access
Jimmy Wales co-founder of Wikipedia asked to reconsider arrangement with paywalled science publisher Elsevier.
PLOS repository recommendation guide
PLOS has identified a set of established repositories, which are recognized and trusted within their respective communities.
"The internet was built to share scientific data"
Interview with Mark Hahnel , founder of the data sharing platform [26]Figshare and keynote speaker on "Open Science" at [27]ScienceComm'15.
Badges to Acknowledge Open Practices
The aim is to specify a standard by which we can say that a scientific study has been conducted in accordance with open-science principles and provide visual icons to allow advertising of such good behaviours.
The BMJ requires data sharing on request for all trials
The data transparency revolution is gathering pace. Last month, the WHO and the Nordic Trial Alliance released important declarations about clinical trial transparency.
Data.gov: Open with apps
Data.gov now enables the public to open data directly with apps like Plotly and CartoDB for robust visualization and analysis. New tools are making it easier to visualize and analyze data at the click of a button.
openSNP
openSNP allows customers of direct-to-customer genetic tests to publish their test results, find others with similar genetic variations, learn more about their results, get the latest primary literature on their variations and help scientists find new associations.
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A Survey of Researchers Submitting to Data Repositories
Why data sharing should be the expected norm
The Institute of Medicine takes a step in the right direction but we should move even faster.
Switzerland ranks only 24th
The state of government open data across the globe in 2014. Switzerland has space for improvement.
Confusion over publisher's rules
PLOS open-data mandate has prompted scientists to share more data online, but not everyone is complying with the regulations.
Confusion over publisher's pioneering open-data rules
The Public Library of Science’s open-data mandate has prompted scientists to share more data online, but not everyone is complying with the regulations.
Interactive notebooks
The free IPython notebook makes data analysis easier to record, understand and reproduce.
Recommendations for the Role of Publishers in Access to Data
As appeals for public access of research data continue to proliferate, many scholarly publishers-alongside funders, institutions, and libraries-are expanding their role to address this need.
Rich Citations
We’ve developed an enriched format for citations, called, appropriately enough, rich citations.
Open letter to Elsevier
Realising the innovative potential of digital research methods: a call from the research community.
How to make government data sites better
Accessing government data from the source is frustrating. If you've done it, or at least tried to, you know the pain that is oddly formatted files, search that doesn't work, and annotation that tells you nothing about the data in front of you.
Europe faces up to big pharma over clinical data
Is 2014 the year that Europe gets drug companies to publish all their data on the safety and effectiveness of medicines?
Academic torrents
The academic torrents network is built for researchers, by researchers. Its distributed peer-to-peer library system automatically replicates your datasets on many servers, so you don't have to worry about managing your own servers or file availability. Everyone who has data becomes a mirror for those data so the system is fault-tolerant.
WHO's vision for information sharing
Knowledge generated with public funds should be accessible to everyone, says Dr Al Shorbaji, Director of Knowledge, Ethics and Research at WHO.
re3data: registry of research data repositories
re3data.org presents repositories for the permanent storage and access of data sets to researchers, funding bodies, publishers and scholarly institutions. re3data.org aims to promote a culture of sharing, increased access and better visibility of research data.
The availability of research data declines rapidly with article age
Broken e-mails and obsolete storage devices were the main obstacles to data sharing. Policies mandating data archiving at publication are clearly needed.
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