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Citation: Dumanis SB, Ratan K, McIntosh S, Shah HV, Lewis M, Vines TH, et al. (2023) From policy to practice: Lessons learned from an open science funding initiative. PLoS Comput Biol 19(12): e1011626. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011626 Editor: Jason A. Papin, University of Virginia, UNITED STATES Published: December 7, 2023 Copyright: © 2023 Dumanis et al. This is an open access article […]

The pioneering Open Access publisher PLOS has partnered with DataSeer (us!) to develop a comprehensive range of Open Science Indicators and apply them to both articles published in PLOS and to comparable articles published elsewhere. They’ve put together a great blog post describing all the work we’re planning, there’s also a poster about our joint

The leaves have started falling off the trees here in the Pacific Northwest, so it’s high time to do a round up of everything that’s happened in the last few months. TL,DR: lots of good things have happened. The big news from June was that DataSeer won the ‘Best Innovation’ Award at the Society for

PLOS journals have been long time leaders in promoting Open Science, so we jumped at the opportunity to help them quantify code sharing at their journal PLOS Computational Biology. PLOS mandated code sharing in PLOS CB in March 2021, so they were keen to a) have historical data on the proportion of author sharing code

We’ve been working with The American Naturalist for almost six months, and recently took the opportunity to contribute to a document laying out the how’s and why’s of their data and code policy. The piece itself is available here – it covers five different areas: The value of Data and Code archiving Problems with the

One of the biggest challenges in open science is driving change at the stakeholder level: even fairly minor policy modifications require consultation with a wide range of people,  which slows down the process and hence is a handbrake on change. By contrast, new stakeholders starting their own initiatives have none of these constraints because they

The recently released Carbis Bay G7 Summit Communiqué contained some impressively strong language around open data. The below is from the text of the main Communiqué itself: “…we endorse the G7 Compact on Research Collaboration and its commitment to: support policies, legal frameworks and programmes to promote research collaboration; promote sharing of research data; explore

The Researcher2Reader conference has been running annually since 2016 and in recent years has featured a debate about a contentious topic in scholarly publishing. Previous years have debated “Sci-Hub is doing more good than harm to scholarly communication“(2019) and “The venue of its publication tells us nothing useful about the quality of a paper” (2020).

On January 21, from 11:00AM – 1:30 PM EST, stakeholders from across the scholarly communications ecosystem, including funders, societies, publishers, and academic institutions will gather online for the free Chorus Forum on the challenges and opportunities around connecting research data to content. Registration is now open. Tim Vines, Project Lead for DataSeer – a tool

The ‘how’ of sharing research data is codified by the FAIR principles, but deciding ‘what’ should be shared is much less settled. I recently wrote a post for the Scholarly Kitchen about the ‘What’ question, and argued that research articles should be our focal unit of research. A consensus on this would allow researchers, funders,