Promoting an open research culture: Author guidelines for journals could help to promote transparency, openness, and reproducibility

peter.suber's bookmarks 2018-08-26

Summary:

"There are eight standards in the TOP guidelines; each moves scientific communication toward greater openness. These standards are modular, facilitating adoption in whole or in part. However, they also complement each other, in that commitment to one standard may facilitate adoption of others. Moreover, the guidelines are sensitive to barriers to openness by articulating, for example, a process for exceptions to sharing because of ethical issues, intellectual property concerns, or availability of necessary resources. The complete guidelines are available in the TOP information commons at http://cos.io/top, along with a list of signatories that numbered 86 journals and 26 organizations as of 15 June 2015. ...

The journal article is central to the research communication process. Guidelines for authors define what aspects of the research process should be made available to the community to evaluate, critique, reuse, and extend. Scientists recognize the value of transparency, openness, and reproducibility. Improvement of journal policies can help those values become more evident in daily practice and ultimately improve the public trust in science, and science itself." 

Link:

http://europepmc.org/backend/ptpmcrender.fcgi?accid=PMC4550299&blobtype=pdf

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Tags:

oa.advocacy oa.journals oa.authors oa.guidelines oa.recommendations oa.policies.journals oa.incentives oa.top oa.best_practices

Date tagged:

08/26/2018, 15:27

Date published:

08/26/2018, 11:27