[open-science] Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Guidelines published

Fri Jun 26 22:48:09 UTC 2015

Sorry - that's rather bleak - and I applaud the effort reported.

On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 11:20 PM, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> The article has no explicit copyright notice and no indication of licence
> or re-use rights. Presumably the authors have donated the rights to the
> publisher who can potentially withdraw access at any time.
>
> On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 9:59 PM, Sara Bowman <sara at cos.io> wrote:
>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> Excited to announce the publication of the Transparency and Openness
>> Promotion (TOP) guidelines in Science Magazine today:
>> http://www.sciencemag.org/content/348/6242/1422.full
>>
>> The TOP Guidelines are the result of work by a diverse group of
>> researchers, journal editors, funders, and society leaders.  The purpose of
>> the TOP Guidelines is to provide templates of policies and procedures that
>> journals can adopt to encourage greater transparency and reproducibility of
>> research in the published record.  The Guidelines are modular and have
>> multiple levels so that journals can adopt part or all of the standards,
>> and can select a level of stringency that is most appropriate for them.
>> This simultaneously provides flexibility and offers the benefits of
>> standards.
>>
>> So far, there are 110+ journals and 35+ organizations as signatories.
>> Signatories express support for the principles of transparency, openness
>> and reproducibility in science, and journal signatories have committed to
>> conducting a full review for potential adoption within the next year. The
>> full list of signatories and more information is available at
>> http://cos.io/top
>>
>>
>> Best,
>> Sara
>>
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>> Sara Bowman, PhD
>> Project Manager
>> Center for Open Science <http://www.cos.io>
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> Peter Murray-Rust
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Peter Murray-Rust
Reader in Molecular Informatics
Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
CB2 1EW, UK
+44-1223-763069
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