FediScience and other Mastodon communities are growing fast. This is good for #OpenScience, this is our kind of system. So worth reading is: "How to Leave Dying Social Media Platforms".
Mastodon fits to our requirements for #OpenScience infrastructure. It is a communication standard, like email. So billionaires cannot buy it.
The Open Access journal Nature Communications to publish all review reports in future.
Scientific Publishing: Peer review without gatekeeping. "eLife will now ... [publish] every paper we review, along with our reviews and an assessment as a Reviewed Preprint"
How to build, grow, and sustain reproducibility or open science initiatives: A virtual brainstorming event
Funders and journals increasingly have open data mandates, but adherence is partial. Data "available on request" is often not available and editors asking for data leads to manuscript retractions.
Overcoming Language Barriers in Academia: Machine Translation Tools and a Vision for a Multilingual Future.
Facilitating open science without sacrificing IP rights. A novel tool for improving replicability of published research.
A randomized preregistered field experiment finds that scientists are much more willing to review a paper by a Nobel laureate and to accept it than a paper by an unknown or anonymous author.
Ensuring an Accurate Scientific Record in an Era of Pre-print Servers. Pre-print servers should ensure that all content is marked as not peer-reviewed and be prepared to retract pre-prints fast.
Editorial: How Nature contributed to science’s discriminatory legacy
German libraries publish a list with 47 mirror journals, which are used to circumvent OA mandates. 43 are from Elsevier. A mirror journal is an open access version of an existing subscription journal.
Plea for a Simple But Radical Change in Scientific Publication: To Improve Openness, Reliability, and Reproducibility, Let’s Deposit and Validate Our Results before Writing Articles
The Autopilot wiki is a publicly-curated collection of supplemental wisdom for using Autopilot, a distributed Python framework for performing behavioral neuroscience experiments with Raspberry Pi's.
The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) commits to the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI) as these align with DOAJs core values, mission and identity
Invest in Open Infrastructur: "The Case For Supporting Open Infrastructure for Preprints: A Preliminary Investigation." This ecosystem is important, but is not yet (financially) sustainable.
Toward practical transparent verifiable and long-term reproducible research using Guix - Scientific Data
CERN publishes comprehensive open science policy
Review paper: "Open Science in research assessment. An overview of quantitative and qualitative approaches."
‘Papermill alarm’ software flags potentially fake papers
