Open Access and Open Data

What is Open Science?

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Open science is practicing science in a way that prioritizes the ability of others to contribute to and reuse scientific work. Open science relies on making the research process as freely available and reusable as possible. This includes sharing articles with open access, depositing research data in open repositories, using open source software, using citizen science, using and creating open educational resources, participating in open peer review, and more. Open science is about creating a scientific culture of collaboration, and has the potential to make science more inclusive to those who have faced barriers to research access, both in the public and within academia.

Source: University of Arizona Health Sciences Library Open Access Library Guide

List of Open Science Resources:

Increasing the reproducibility of scientific data is one of the main drivers of new requirements for Open Science and Open Data on scholarly publications.

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The Center for Open Science is behind several initiatives that support reproducibility in the sciences and social sciences:

• Open Science Framework - Free and open source project management repository that supports researchers across their entire project lifecycle. 

• Registered Reports - Journals offering Registered Reports agree to review study protocols before experiments are conducted. If the protocols are judged to have merit the journal commits, in advance, to publishing the outcomes.

• Preregistration - When you preregister your research, you're specifying your plan in advance, before you gather data. Preregistration separates hypothesis-generating  (exploratory) from hypothesis-testing (confirmatory) research.

Baker, M., Baker, M., & Penny, D. (2016). Is there a reproducibility crisis? Nature, 533(7604), 452-454. doi:10.1038/533452a