Scientific Utopia: Improving the Openness and Reproducibility of Research - The Ubiquitous Librarian - The Chronicle of Higher Education

"I had hoped to do a full interview on this but that’s not going to happen: running out of time. Short version, Brian Nosek (Center for Open Science & UVA) spoke at our Open Access Week event last year. He outlined the Open Science Framework (OSF)—it aims to help the way research is conducted. Main theme: there are many different tools and services that address certain niches of the workflow, but OSF tackles the entire lifecycle: planning, execution, reporting, archiving, and discovery. Here is the talk ... Lots of great content, but check out: 27 minutes in… talks about incentives for openness and how researchers can be cited for particular elements, such as tools or code they develop. This serves as a functional citation. 30 minutes in… new contributor models. Right now everything is vertical integration—you do everything: idea, design, collect data, analysis, and generate the final report ..."