Toward Open Behavioral Science

abernard102@gmail.com 2013-05-03

Summary:

Use the link to access the full text article from a special open access  issue of the journal Psychological Inquiry: An International Journal for the Advancement of Psychological Theory published by Taylor & Francis.  The article opens as follows: "Brian A. Nosek and Yoav Bar-Anan (this issue) describe three traditional ways of doing science: Researchers can operate independently, antagonistically,or collaboratively. There is also an emerging fourth way: Scientists can operate openly. In their visionof scientific utopia, Nosek and Bar-Anan call for increased openness in peer review and journal access. By opening up the review process and providing everyone with free digital access to published papers, the process of communicating and disseminating information would become a continuous conversation rather than
a monologue delivered into the void of unpublished manuscripts or a dialogue separated by interminable periods of silence between submission, review, publication, and subsequent commentaries and follow-up studies. With open review and faster access, more people could be part of the process and credited with their contributions, and science would benefit.  Other areas of scholarship stand to benefit from openness. The MediaCommons Network family of digital-only journals in Media, Culture, and Communications Studies (mediacommons.futureofthebook.org) encourages a rich and public review process. Scholars in the humanities are beginning to invite public review of monographs prior to print publication (Cohen, 2010). Library scientists at New York University, the University of Illinois, and elsewhere are developing technical standards that permit complex scholarly commentary structures, such as group review and hierarchical review conversation. We have a complementary vision of utopian openness—open data sharing, where researchers contribute data to a secure repository and can browse and download deposited files of interest. Open data sharing is especially important in developmental science where data from infants, young children, and special populations are difficult and expensive to collect, and many longitudinal and clinical studies contain unique data that cannot be readily replicated."

Link:

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/1047840X.2012.705133

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Date tagged:

05/03/2013, 11:46

Date published:

05/03/2013, 07:46