Talking points
This section includes resources that discuss the importance of Open Science to a wider audience, including anectodes, examples, stories from researchers, comics, etc. They can be useful to introduce Open Science during talks, presentations and conferences.
- 🍪 📄 Valid reasons not to participate in open science practices
- There are no reasons. This is a joke paper.
- Dr. Glaucomflecken's videos on 🍪 ▶️ Academic Publishing and 🍪 ▶️ How to publish a manuscript
- These videos are a parody of the academic publishing system, highlighting some of its absurdities.
- 💬 Defence against the dark arts: a proposal for a new MSc course
Publishers can be very protective about the published data: it makes them a lot of money. See for instance, the case of Researchgate v publishers, Researchgate bows to publishers and Researchgate announcement on the topic.
Reproducibility Crisis
The reproducibility crisis we are experiencing in many research areas has highlighted the importance of Open Science. This section includes resources that discuss the reproducibility crisis and how Open Science can help alleviate it.