Scientists, Share Secrets or Lose Funding: Stodden and Arbesman - Bloomberg

Connotea Imports 2012-07-31

Summary:

“The Journal of Irreproducible Results, a science-humor magazine, is, sadly, no longer the only publication that can lay claim to its title. More and more published scientific studies are difficult or impossible to repeat. It’s not that the experiments themselves are so flawed they can’t be redone to the same effect -- though this happens more than scientists would like. It’s that the data upon which the work is based, as well as the methods employed, are too often not published, leaving the science hidden... Federal agencies that fund scientific research are in a position to help fix this problem. They should require that all scientists whose studies they finance share the files that generated their published findings, the raw data and the computer instructions that carried out their analysis. The ability to reproduce experiments is important not only for the advancement of pure science but also to address many science-based issues in the public sphere, from climate change to biotechnology... By making the underlying data and computer code conveniently available, scientists could open a new era of innovation and growth. In October, the White House released a memorandum titled “Accelerating Technology Transfer and Commercialization of Federal Research in Support of High-Growth Businesses,” which outlines ways for federal funding agencies to improve the rate of technology transfer from government-financed laboratories to the private business sector... In this memo, President Barack Obama called on federal agencies to measure the rate of technology transfer. To this end, agencies such as the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation should require that scientists who receive federal funds publish full results, including the data they are based on and all the computer steps taken to reach them...”

Link:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-10/scientists-share-secrets-or-lose-funding-stodden-and-arbesman.html

Updated:

08/16/2012, 06:08

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ru.no oa.new oa.data oa.comment oa.usa oa.reproducibility oa.mandates.data oa.tech_transfer oa.business_models oa.publishers oa.government oa.mandates oa.nih oa.open_science oa.funders oa.nsf oa.obama oa.policies

Authors:

abernard

Date tagged:

07/31/2012, 11:53

Date published:

02/25/2012, 12:30