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Title TBA: Revising the Abstract Submission Process.
Academic conferences are among the most prolific scientific activities, yet the current abstract submission and review process has serious limitations. We propose a revised process that would address these limitations, achieve some of the aims of Open Science, and stimulate discussion throughout the entire lifecycle of the scientific work
The Open Practises E-Science Network (OPEN)
A grant proposal submitted for support to fund a research network focussed on identifying and dealing with the practical issues of enabling open practise in research. The text of the proposal was written by a large number of people and coordinated by Cameron Neylon
New science on the Open Science Grid
The Open Science Grid (OSG) includes work to enable new science, new scientists, and new modalities in support of computationally based research. There are frequently significant sociological and organizational changes required in transformation from the existing to the new. OSG leverages its deliverables to the large-scale physics experiment member communities to benefit new communities at all scales through activities in education, engagement, and the distributed facility. This paper gives both a brief general description and specific examples of new science enabled on the OSG. More information is available at the OSG web site: www.opensciencegrid.org
Will e-Science Be Open Science?
This contribution examines various aspects of “openness” in research, and seeks to gauge the degree to which contemporary “e-science” practices are congruent with “open science.” Norms and practices of openness are vital for the work of modern scientific communities, but concerns about the growth of stronger technical and institutional restraints on access to research tools, data, and information recently have attracted notice—in part because of their implications for the effective utilization of advanced digital infrastructures and information technologies in research collaborations. Our discussion clarifies the conceptual differences between e-science and open science, and reports findings from a preliminary look at practices in U.K. e-science projects. Both parts serve to emphasize that it is unwarranted to presume that the development of e-science necessarily promotes global open science collaboration. Since there is evident need for further empirical research to establish where, when, and to the extent “openness” and "e-ness" in scientific and engineering research may be expected to advance hand-in-hand, we outline a framework within which such a program of studies might be undertaken.e-Science, Open Science, Engineering Reserach
Open Science in Software Engineering
Open science describes the movement of making any research artefact available
to the public and includes, but is not limited to, open access, open data, and
open source. While open science is becoming generally accepted as a norm in
other scientific disciplines, in software engineering, we are still struggling
in adapting open science to the particularities of our discipline, rendering
progress in our scientific community cumbersome. In this chapter, we reflect
upon the essentials in open science for software engineering including what
open science is, why we should engage in it, and how we should do it. We
particularly draw from our experiences made as conference chairs implementing
open science initiatives and as researchers actively engaging in open science
to critically discuss challenges and pitfalls, and to address more advanced
topics such as how and under which conditions to share preprints, what
infrastructure and licence model to cover, or how do it within the limitations
of different reviewing models, such as double-blind reviewing. Our hope is to
help establishing a common ground and to contribute to make open science a norm
also in software engineering.Comment: Camera-Ready Version of a Chapter published in the book on
Contemporary Empirical Methods in Software Engineering; fixed layout issue
with side-note
The LIGO Open Science Center
The LIGO Open Science Center (LOSC) fulfills LIGO's commitment to release,
archive, and serve LIGO data in a broadly accessible way to the scientific
community and to the public, and to provide the information and tools necessary
to understand and use the data. In August 2014, the LOSC published the full
dataset from Initial LIGO's "S5" run at design sensitivity, the first such
large-scale release and a valuable testbed to explore the use of LIGO data by
non-LIGO researchers and by the public, and to help teach gravitational-wave
data analysis to students across the world. In addition to serving the S5 data,
the LOSC web portal (losc.ligo.org) now offers documentation, data-location and
data-quality queries, tutorials and example code, and more. We review the
mission and plans of the LOSC, focusing on the S5 data release.Comment: 8 pages, 1 figure, proceedings of the 10th LISA Symposium, University
of Florida, Gainesville, May 18-23, 2014; final published version; see
losc.ligo.org for the S5 data release and more information about the LIGO
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Open Science, Open Data, and Open Scholarship: European Policies to Make Science Fit for the Twenty-First Century
Open science will make science more efficient, reliable, and responsive to societal challenges. The European Commission has sought to advance open science policy from its inception in a holistic and integrated way, covering all aspects of the research cycle from scientific discovery and review to sharing knowledge, publishing, and outreach. We present the steps taken with a forward-looking perspective on the challenges laying ahead, in particular the necessary change of the rewards and incentives system for researchers (for which various actors are co-responsible and which goes beyond the mandate of the European Commission). Finally, we discuss the role of artificial intelligence (AI) within an open science perspective
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