OpenVisionScience

This site provides information and resources regarding open science for vision scientists. From information regarding past and future events, to open source software options, to open access publishers, to data and code sharing solutions and the politics and policy that shapes the type of science that we do, this site is intended to provide a broad resource to those interested in making vision science a more open science.

Background

This videos provide a useful introduction to some of the issues surronding the need and potential for open science, you might also find them useful resources to introduce your students to these issues and problems.

• Amusing video Scientist Meets Publisher satirizes the current situation with closed journal publishing

• Inspiring video Michael Nielsen - Open Science setting out a very different vision for how to do science.

Open source software options

Statistics R, for an open source integrated development environment see R studio.

Experiment construction PsychoPy

Policy and politics for open science

Chris Cahmbers and Petroc Sumner Replication is the only solution to scientific fraud "If academia is to be cleaned up, the Research Excellence Framework must prize replication over politics"

Ways to take action

Sign the cost of knowledge petition were over 12000 researchers are refusing to review, edit, and/or publish with Elsevier. Vision researchers spotted on the list include George Lovell, Jon Pierce, Edward Adelson, Alex Holcombe (who is only partially boycotting, and also made a pledge at OpenAccessPledge), Deborah Aphtorp, Joan Lopez-Moliner, Rainer Mausfeld, Nick Scott-Samuel, Michel Treisman,

Continue the discussion

At the Google Group, and on CVnet.

Or on Twitter: #OpenVisionSci, @openscience, @costofknowledge, @ceptional, @i_Perception, @michael_nielson

Past Events

Woolcock Institute 2012

1. Alex Holcome The broaest problem in science: Our publishing system

VSS 2012

1. Alex Holcome Moving towards inexpensive and open publishing

2. Dwight Kravitz "Toward a new model of scientific publishing: discussion and a proposal"

For more information on the VSS event, go to: OpenVisionScienceVSS

ECVP 2012

1. Lee de-Wit, Does rewarding that which is easy to measure lead to better science?

2. Nick Scott-Samuel, Why have so many academics decided to boycott Elsevier?

3. Amye Kenall,Open access and author-owned copyright

4. Deborah Anthorp, Publication bias, the File Drawer Problem, and how innovative publication models can help

5. Jonathan Peirce, http://www.slideshare.net/peircej/opensource-your-science

6. Ian Thornton, Exploiting modern technology in making experiments: the academic app store

Publishing Solutions

We all hope for an open system of science in which:

• Journal articles are inexpensive or free.
• Peer review is fair and efficient.
• Experiments can be fully replicated by anyone.

Achieving these goals is more feasible than ever, but most publishers, journals, and researchers have made few changes to the way they do business. This workshop will include discussion of possible solutions. We want constructive suggestions, possibly leading to an action plan.

Subscription but non-profit

Oxford Journals of OUP, Annals of Botany editor says they're great, ARVO (Would ARVO take Vision Research on board?), Duke University Press, MIT Press, Highwire Press (Stanford), Society for Neuroscience.

Open Access (a dream, but not an impossible one)

• Open Journal Systems
• Annotum
• Ubiquity uses customised versions of OJS for research journals and @Annotum for meta journals.
• PLoS Currents has been re-launched using Annotum With PLoS Currents, submission to publication can take place in a matter of days and there are no publication fees. Authors use Annotum to write their submission and are in complete control of the appearance of their article.

• list of similar resources

With these options, if some universities/libraries/societies banded together, staff could presumably be hired to do administration of the above software etc.

The savings by eliminating the subscription fees for university libraries might well allow them to fund this (Heather Morrison's thesis includes calculations).