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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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Scientific hackathons or other intense voluntary bottom-up events

I have found, having participated in a few fairly intensive workshops that were intended to produce a product after a short amount of time that this tends toward failure for a few reasons: Most acad …
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What are the disadvantages of opening the source of your own science tools

The issues I have personally encountered working on this - my source code is a mixture of open source and closed source projects, depending on many factors: You have to maintain your code. This migh …
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How would you decide to publish (or not) in F1000Research or other journals with alternative...

How would I decide? Funding, Readership and Tenure. Does the journal cost money to submit to, and if so, do I have any funding for said submission? Is there a means of waiving that fee if I don't h …
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Are there any proposals to make sharing code and data with publications a requirement?

There is no particular "universal" regulation, and attempts to do so, even for things like the PLoS data sharing policy go somewhat pear-shaped. This is because, as @Peteris mentions, academia and res …
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Risks of shifting to post-publication review

In my mind, there are three semi-related problems with post-publication peer review: It's difficult for the lay press to distinguish between pre- and post-publication reviewed papers, and for many " …
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Is there any obligation for authors of a paper to provide the dataset used in their research...

Inherently? No. While it might be good for science generally, they're under no obligation to do so. That being said, some funding agencies require data be made available as a condition of their suppo …
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Should I write a paper on open-source software I've built?

Yes - for example, in my field, there is one fairly good journal that allows a type of short journal article on new "tools", and I've read more than one PLOS paper on an open-source application. As ot …
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Why and how commonly are scientists concerned about open peer review?

I don't know that there are any surveys looking at this, but some concerns I have, or have heard from peers, involve the following: Open means open, which results in a way more expansive definition …
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