Openness Boosts Research

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Open research initiative in a difficult environment - pharmaceuticals.

Matthew Todd, Associate Professor at The University of Sydney and team lead of the Open Source Malaria (OSM) project gave a talk entitled "Openness Boosts Research" at the Office of the NSW Chief Scientist's (Mary O'Kane) Breakfast Seminar in Sydney on 28 October, 2015.

http://www.slideshare.net/MatthewTodd5/nsw-chief-scientist-breakfast-seminar

"The Open Source Malaria project is trying a different approach to curing malaria. Guided by open source principles, everything is open and anyone can contribute." 

Further information on the Open Source Malaria project can be found here.

USA: 3rd Open Govt National Action Plan

https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/final_us_open_government_national_action_plan_3_0.pdf

See in particular, from p.10 re: open science

The Office of Science and Technology Policy will work to ensure that all Federal agencies that spend more than $100 million per year on research and development finalize plans and implement policies and programs to make scientific publications and digital data resulting from Federally funded research accessible to and usable by scientists, entrepreneurs, educators, students, and the general public.


Develop National Open Data Guidelines. The Director of the Office of Management and Budget and the U.S. Chief Technology Officer will work with Data.gov, the Federal Open Data working group, representatives from Federal, state, and local governments, and civil society stakeholders to create Open Data National Guidelines on key issues for Federal open data.

● Promote Public Feedback Tools to Facilitate the Release of Open Data. The U.S. Open Data Policy directs agencies to engage with data users to prioritize release of open government data, and agencies approach this requirement in a variety of ways. The Office of Management and Budget and the General Services Administration will work with Federal agencies to promote consistent, customer-friendly feedback mechanisms on opening new datasets and improving existing datasets.

ORCID auto-update launch a 'game changer'

Research Information - News

INDUSTRY TRENDS - 26 October 2015

Now, ORCID registrants who use their unique ORCID identifier (iD) when submitting a manuscript or dataset can opt to have their ORCID record automatically updated when their work is made public.

http://www.researchinformation.info/news/news_story.php?news_id=2013

 

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