Late this August, California became a haven for proponents of data-sharing as the California Digital Library played host to the annual DataCite meeting in Berkeley. DataCite is a non-profit organization which aims to promote the sharing and re-use of research data by helping to provide tools to support a global infrastructure for data archiving, access, and citation. DataCite is composed [...]
Michael Weiner, MD, Director of CIND at the San Francisco VA Medical Center, is among a prestigious group of 17 scientists named 2010 Rock Stars of Science by the Geoffrey Beene Foundation. The Rock Stars of Science campaign brings rock stars and “rock star” scientists together to help raise awareness about the important role of scientific research.
A veritable orchestra of Earth-observation systems is intended to make reams of data available and relevant to decision-makers. At the summit last week of the Group on Earth. And GEO delegates embraced plans to funnel data from platforms tracking everything from biodiversity to earthquake risks into a free and open database.
A panel of librarians, library scientists, publishers, and university academic leaders recently called on federal agencies that fund research to develop and implement policies that ensure free public access to the results of the research they fund “as soon as possible after those results have been published in a peer-reviewed journal.”
Burnaby, B.C., Canada, October 21, 2010 — Simon Fraser University has joined 12 other leading post-secondary institutions as a signatory to the Compact for Open Access Publishing Equity (COPE). Open access makes scholarly and other content freely available online to all users, without barriers, such as subscriptions or pay-per-view/use costs.
NSF (October 1, 2010) – The National Science Foundation will soon require that grant applications contain a detailed plan explaining how researchers expect to publicly share the data generated by the agency’s funding. Applications without the newly required supplements, which can be up to two pages long, will be ineligible for funding.
Open access to our body of federally funded research, including not only published papers but also any supporting data and code, is imperative, not just for scientific progress but for the integrity of the research itself. We list below nine focus areas and recommendations for action.
During the May 5th meeting of the National Science Board, National Science Foundation (NSF) officials announced a change in the implementation of the existing policy on sharing research data. In particular, on or around October, 2010, NSF is planning to require that all proposals include a data management plan in the form of a two-page supplementary document.