Author’s Corner: Open data, open review and open dialogue in making social sciences plausible

Author’s Corner: Open data, open review and open dialogue in making social sciences plausible

A growing awareness of the lack of reproducibility has undermined society’s trust and esteem in social sciences. In some cases, well-known results have been fabricated or the underlying data have turned out to have weak technical foundations.  Read more

Data sharing recommendations to the NIH

Springer Nature has responded to the US National Institutes of Health’s request for information (RFI) on Strategies for NIH Data Management, Sharing, and Citation.  Our detailed response covers a multitude of issues on barriers to and incentives for sharing data and software that support published research.  Read more

Author’s corner: A testbed for reproducible and standardized human MRI connectomics

Author’s corner: A testbed for reproducible and standardized human MRI connectomics

Guest post by Xi-Nian Zuo, Project Coordinator and Co-Founder of Consortium for Reliability and Reproducibility (CoRR), Professor of Psychology and Director of the Magnetic Resonance Imaging Research Center in the Institute of Psychology at Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.  Read more

Scientific Data’s Japan Roadshow

Next week the Research Data Alliance (RDA) Seventh Plenary Meeting will take place in Tokyo, Japan. Data experts from all over the world will gather in Tokyo, marking this as an excellent opportunity for those wishing to learn about open research data and the open science landscape, especially in Japan. Before the RDA, the Japan Science and Technology Agency is organizing The Data Sharing Symposium, and afterward the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) along with the National Institute of Informatics, are co-organizing the Asian Open Access Meeting.  Read more

We’ve clarified our policies on institutional repositories

This week, we updated our data repository recommendations to clarify our existing support for institutional repositories.  We have also made it easier for authors using these resources to submit manuscripts to Scientific Data.  Read more