Questions tagged [open-science]
Questions concerning "Open Science", or research done in full view of the public eye, with a focus on accessibly and reproducibility, including tools to enable such access.
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Is it possible to hide files on OSF?
Is there a way or option to hide a particular file in a repository on OSF (Open Science Framework) from users who access the repository with a view-only link?
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Is it possible to change access to Zenodo archive from closed to open?
I have a manuscript in review at a reputable journal. The code and data associated with this study will be made public on Github and releases archived in Zenodo with open access, providing a fixed DOI ...
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Advertising open science in job market with a different norm
i am a postdoc at one of the US-based institutions. I have been invited to give a job talk for a faculty position in another country (i will call country A).
Recently, i was browsing the faculty ...
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Can I submit a paper to arXiv when it is still pending on Hal, and waiting to be transferred from HAL to arXiv?
I submitted my first paper to HAL over eight days ago. It is still on awaiting moderation status.
When I deposed it on Hal, I checked the box indicating that I wanted it transferred to arXiv. But ...
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What's the current state of play of efforts to reform academic publishing to more open source like inclusion of non-significant results? [closed]
My understanding is that publishing model of academic research (i.e. publishing in journals) is a bit broken mostly in the sense that non-significant results are not published.
Key factors are:
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Is there a contradiction between open access/science positions adopted at many universities and their reliance on Google services? [closed]
I work at a faculty which is completely dedicated to open access and open science. They do everything in accordance with best practices. Very cool.
But at the same time they are totally embedded in ...
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What good is my paper if the code is not open source?
I have been working with my research group on a number of papers in a certain area of Computer Science. These papers have a certain portion which is theoretical (i.e. contains theorems, formalisms, ...
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How do you release a previously published, copyrighted work as open access?
I am working on an open-access textbook. I have the permission of an author to use material from a previously published book from 20 years ago which the publisher returned the rights to digital ...
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Transforming a private research project repository into an open-source repository [closed]
Our research project is ready for being shared as a preprint and submitted for peer review. What are the best practices for transforming the private research repository (which includes several pilot ...
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Where to upload research data after article publication?
As the title says, I wish to publicly share a dataset used in one of my articles which has already been published (by MDPI, if that helps). I do not think the data is worthy of an article by itself, ...
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Publishing a dataset to which anyone should be able to contribute
(I have seen multiple questions about how to share datasets in general, but none of them seems to involve the criterion of an open contributorship.)
I want to share a dataset to which anyone should be ...
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Authors sharing accepted paper reviews
For transparency, I would like to share my accepted papers' anonymous peer reviews, if my coauthors unanimously agree. Some journals partner with websites such as openreview.net (which share reviews ...
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Author refuses sharing his "open access" code/data
My doctoral project required me to learn a whole new method from zero. My advisor had another student who mastered the technique since his BA studies, and so was much more advanced than me. I asked ...
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Am I responsible for reproducing results if open-sourced code is bad? [closed]
In computational research, authors of publications are often required to open-source their code. However, while having open-sourced one's code improves chance for journal/conference acceptance, ...
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Is there a Ronin alternative in Europe? How to be an independent scientist in the EU?
I am a senior postdoc in a theoretical/computational field and for various reasons I am quite tired of jumping from one postdoc to another (have to switch cities/continents every few years, and many ...
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(Why) Is post publication peer review (not) taking off?
I know, this is a bit of a broad question. But looking at the developments and having experienced a reasonable amount of pain with established publishers and their either complex, slow, or restrictive ...
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Sharing research-related codes and datasets: Split them, or share them together on a single platform?
I want to share both (1) programming codes and (2) datasets related to a research project.
While I know some suitable platforms superficially, I cannot gauge their pros and cons in too much depth ...
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What is the status of foreign cloud apps in German universities?
From what I heard, in German universities there is a push against foreign cloud applications such as Microsoft Office 365, Google G Suite, Github, and even Doodle. The DFN offers some alternatives, ...
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Is there a database of publications for nearly all major disciplines? [closed]
Google scholar is an excellent service for looking at basic metadata about publications (e.g. authors, title, abstract, and papers it cites). But they do not offer an official API (free or otherwise).
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To what extent can I refer to closed-access reviewer comments in my public task management workflow?
I have written and submitted a manuscript to a journal owned by Oxford University Press. This manuscript describes the associated source code, which is stored in a public GitHub repository. The ...
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CRediT contribution statement: Pros and cons of including non-author contributors? [closed]
An increasing number of journals require a CRediT – Contributor Roles Taxonomy statement for, among other things, "Enabling visibility and recognition of the different contributions of ...
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How to find past editors and editorial board members of scientific journals?
Journal websites usually list their present editors and editorial board members.
Is there any systematic way to find out the journals' past editors and editorial board members (if possible, in a ...
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Find articles that share datasets and code
I am working on some project, in which I would like to find articles where they use some computer code to treat data, and the used datasets and code is totally available (github, personal website, etc)...
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Best platform to publicaly share data
I'm in the final stage of my PhD, and want to make my datasets publicly available. This is so that my examiners can re-run my regressions, if they wish; but moreover, I want other scholars to be able ...
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How can I pre-register my study of little importance?
I am writing an undergraduate dissertation on behavioural economics. I am looking to run an experiment. As nobody apart from my course convenor will read my paper, the stakes are not particularly high....
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How to cite (unpublished) data set during peer review?
In the move towards open science, it is becoming common practice to deposit the data accompanying a publication in a dedicated data repository.
Often, authors prefer to delay the publication of the ...
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Will a paper be retracted if a flaw in released software code invalidates its central idea?
Say I have written code that performs a physics calculation. After this, I get a paper published based on the results of the code. In the interest of advancing the progress of science, I upload the ...
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Can scientists be categorized according to temperament and working style? [closed]
I'm doing a bit of informal research about scientists. I would like to know if scientists, at least in the hard sciences, can be categorized according to their working style. And if so, what are some ...
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How to choose a generalist repository and what risks should I be aware of? [closed]
I am trying to choose between these different generalist repositories:
Zenodo
Open Science Framework
Figshare (or Dyrad??)
Harvard dataverse
General cloud services
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Figshare has a nice comparison ...
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Is it always OK to ask for a copy of the lecturer's slides?
Weeks ago I attended a lecture/seminar in NYU Shanghai, and I am not a student nor an alumnus of it. After the lecture I attempted to ask if I can have a copy of the slides because the content is so ...
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Which kinds of academic revolutions has philosophy of science indentified so far and when?
Recently, I had an interdisciplinary discussion with some friends about Industry 4.0, internet of things,...which brought up the question, which kind of academic revolutions apart from industrial ...
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back assign DOI to extant dataset
Would it be possible for researchers back-assign a DOI to an existing dataset they have rights to - where there is no permission to share it publically (privacy, organization proprietary, personnel to ...
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Which journals make peer review history documents publicly available?
Nature Communications has had a policy since 2016 that authors are given the option to publish the peer review history of their paper.
Are there other journals with the same initiative?
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Can you publish a paper Simply Implementing another Paper's Algorithm?
There was a highly cited paper published earlier this year in my field which introduced a highly theoretical, non trivial, algorithm that relied on extremely heavy theory. The algorithm was exact (...
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Reproducible science: do entities exist requiring Level 3 of TOP standards?
Quite many (if not most of) scientific articles, related to computational sciences, which I have seen, do not share both data and code leading to the figures.
This may have of course good reasons ...
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Open university and admissions into a US Masters
Can a student with a bachelor's in engineering with very little chemistry take some courses in chemistry to get into a chemistry masters? How do US masters view courses taken from Open University, ...
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OpenStreetMaps in research publications: Is that possible?
In connection with Scholia (https://tools.wmflabs.org/scholia/), we are making OpenStreetMap plots online with the tiler from Wikimedia Foundation. When presented online OSM-derived maps are not a ...
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How to Store Incidental Information Gleaned in the Course of Conducting Research
I'm in the throes of writing my first substantial research paper in the field of Information Science. The topic looks promising and my advisor seems pleased with the work. Because of the nature of the ...
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Is there a "place" to deposit and, or publish reports produced in grad school?
I am looking for some kind of repository where I can "publish" my reports from grad school.
I'd like to do this because it would be great if I could link those works with my ORCID and make them ...
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Innovative and free publication platform [closed]
I would like to create an open access journal / a platform that is free of charge for authors and readers. Ideally, I would like it to get away from the current norms: offer the possibility to publish ...
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Has anyone here tried this alternative peer review platform 'Peerage of Science'?
I have just learnt about the details of this platform, located below:
https://www.peerageofscience.org
I am interested in trying out but none of my colleagues has experimented this platform. I am ...
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How to add data availability statement in Physical Review Letters?
We have submitted our recent findings to PRL. As the second round of revision came through, we are almost confident that we will get published in PRL.
Now we wanted to provide our algorithm as a ...
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How Reproducible should Data and Analysis Methodology Be?
My question might be a stretch given my lack of formal experience with writing and publishing research papers. But one thing I've noticed in my line of work and reading published papers is that the ...
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What exactly would count as copyright infringement in a replication paper?
I have been following the review process of a replication journal
In particular, it has an open review which can be seen.
On a particular submission they are having a debate about whether copying ...
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Using grants to make donations to institutions for using their resources/products?
In my academic area I constantly use free software/products such as Linux, Python, SageMath, Octave, Wikipedia, etc.
I know that one can include software costs such as Matlab, Mathematica, Maple, ...
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Should I review differently when the review itself will be public?
Some journals, such as many of the EGU Copernicus publications, publish the initial manuscript and the (anonymous) peer reviews and author replies along with the full manuscript. When reviewing for ...
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Can I use a section of my thesis to "soap-box" about a meta-issue regarding research?
I'm a big believer in FOSS (Free Open Source Software), and a physics graduate student. I believe a lot of current researchers are not aware of free solutions to problems that are usually encountered ...
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How much money do universities pay to access datasets?
Is there any research/study/survey that tried to quantify how much money universities / academic research labs pay to access data sets?
For example, in the United States, many hospitals as well as ...
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Why and how commonly are scientists concerned about open peer review?
Some years ago I published an article in a Copernicus Open Access Journal. They have a peer review process called Interactive Public Peer Review, i.e. the pre-print and the reviews are open access. ...
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Is it normal for things to be so cutthroat, and what to do about it?
I am a postdoc in mathematics. I like doing math, but I do not feel like I belong to a community, in the true sense of the word.
My vision of mathematical research is that it should be a massive ...
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