Open Projects - Open Humans
*This article is the second in a series highlighting open science projects around the community. You can read the interview this article was based on: edited for clarity, unedited.*
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Posts from the Open Science Collaboration Blog (2013–2015), a group blog about reproducibility, open data, and reforming scientific practice. Originally at osc.centerforopenscience.org.
*This article is the second in a series highlighting open science projects around the community. You can read the interview this article was based on: edited for clarity, unedited.*
Today is International Clinical Trials Day, held on May 20th in honor of George Lind, the famous Scottish physician who began one of the world\'s first clinical trials on May 20th, 1747. This trial discovered that vitamin C deficiency was the cause of scurvy. While it and the other life-saving trials that have been conducted in the last two hundred and sixty seven years are surely worth celebration, International Clinical Trials Day is also a time to reflect on the problems that plague the clinical trials system. In particular, the lack of reporting on nearly half of all clinical trials has potentially deadly consequences.
*This post is in response to Jon Grahe\'s recent article in which he invited readers to propose metaphors that might help us understand why fraud occurs and how to prevent it.*
Dear Professor Lucky,
*This article is the first in a series highlighting open science projects around the community. You can read the interview this article was based on: edited for clarity, unedited.*
When it comes to opening up your work there is, ironically, a bit of a secret. Here it is: being open - in open science, open source software, or any other open community - can be hard. Sometimes it can be harder than being closed.
*This is part three of a three part post brainstorming potential improvements to the journal article format. Part one is here, part two is here.*
*This is part two of a three part post brainstorming potential improvements to the journal article format. Part one is here, part three is here here.*
To celebrate Open Access Week last month, we asked people four questions about the state of open access and how it\'s changing. Here are some in depth answers from two people working on open access: Peter Suber, Director of the Harvard Office for Scholarly Communication and the Harvard Open Access Project, and Elizabeth Silva, associate editor at the Public Library of Science (PLOS).