Examples of information systems for experiment publishing

ArrayExpress

ArrayExpress

  • Description/functions: Archive for functional genomics data generated from microarray and next-generation sequencing (NGS) platforms. Data is archived together with detailed information about the experiments so that other researchers can interpret and reproduce the experiments without having to read a scientific paper.
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myExperiment

myExperiment

  • Description/functions: myExperiment is a collaborative environment where scientists can safely publish their workflows and in silico experiments, share them with groups and find those of others. On myExperiment you can also find the other people, create and join collaboration groups.
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protocols.io

protocols.io

  • Description/functions: Protocols.io is a repository of science methods and collaborative research platform, which helps you to move your scientific work forward with the protocols platform. It offers you the possibility to work on your own protocols privately or collaborate with thousands of other scientists through public methods. Additionally, it helps you to set a DOI for your protocol.
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peer review Blog item initiative repository
Short Description

This is a blog item, published by Welcome, which is about a new initiative that allows researchers to cite preprints in their grant applications. Central Service for Preprints allows researchers to deposit their preprints – complete and public drafts of scientific documents, not yet certified by peer review – to:

Short Description

The use of journal hierarchy for assessing the reputation of research works and their authors has contributed to a competitive environment that is having a detrimental effect on scientific reliability. Open access repositories administered by Universities or research organizations are a valuable infrastructure that could support the transition to a more collaborative and efficient scholarly evaluation and communication system. Open Scholar has coordinated a consortium of six partners to develop the first Open Peer Review Module (OPRM) for institutional repositories. The module integrates an overlay peer review service, coupled with a transparent reputation system, on top of institutional repositories. It is provided freely as open source software.

open peer review peer review Blog item initiative
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This is a blog item, published by WIRED, which is about the story of a neuroscientist named Niko Kriegeskorte, a cognitive neuroscientist at the Medical Research Council in the UK who, since December 2015, has performed all of his peer review openly. That means he publishes his reviews as he finishes them on his personal blog—sharing on Twitter and Facebook, too—before a paper is even accepted.

open peer review peer review open access initiative
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This initiative shares a vision of an independent, democratic academic evaluation model free from the conflicts of interest imposed by the agendas of journals and their commercial publishers. It aims to promote complementary strategies to comprise the ingredients needed to attain this goal and to encourage scholars and interested parties to experiment with new modes that can assist the transition to free, independent, open and transparent peer review. In addition, it considers that any platform developed to implement free and open peer review should be independent of intermediaries. To mitigate potential conflicts of interest such platforms should ideally be under the management of an open community, be open source and operate in a non-profit manner.

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