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The Wellcome Trust has teamed up with the US National Institutes of Health and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to launch a new prize that will seek to unleash the power of open content and data... 
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The open-data movement has already reached almost the whole of society. For example, digital content can be used freely (open content), computer programs perused and altered (open source),...
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The Projects initiative, a Digital Science endeavour, provides a desktop app that allows you to comprehensively organize and manage data you produce as research projects progress. The rationale behind Projects is that scientific data needs to be properly managed and preserved if we want it to be perennial: there’s indeed a worrisome trend showcasing that every year, the amount of research data being generated increases by 30%, and yet a massive 80% of scientific data is lost within two decades. - See more at: http://science.okfn.org/2014/01/16/love-your-data-and-let-others-love-it-too/#sthash.L7oK1V0Q.dpuf
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The World Science Festival, which took place in June in New York City, put the spotlight on citizen science and balloon mapping. Public Lab, an open community of citizen scientists investigating environmental concerns held a balloon mapping workshop to demonstrate the value of their cost-effective method of taking high-resolution aerial pictures in tandem with their toolkits, open data and public domain.
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For the second installment in our summer open science series, I’d like to talk about open data. This could very well be one of the more debated topics; I certainly know it always gets my colleagues opinions exposed very quickly in one direction or the other. I’d like to think about why we would do this, methods and challenges of open data, and close with my personal viewpoint on the topic.
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PeerLibrary is calling for collaboration on open dataset of all academic publications.
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I was pleasantly surprised when, last year, I was approached with the request to become Consulting Editor for a new APA journal calledArchives of Scientific Psychology. The journal, as advertised on its website upon launch, had a distinct Open Science signature. As its motto said, it was an “Open Methodology, Open Data, Open Access journal”. That’s a lot of openness indeed.
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