Written by Lauren Cadwallader and Lindsay Morton Different research communities have different priorities, needs, norms, and challenges in communicating their research—it’s no…
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Open Code How does Open Science practice differ between research disciplines?
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Open Code Why quantifying Openness matters
Written by Iain Hrynaszkiewicz PLOS’ mission is to transform research communication for the good of science and society. We believe that Open…
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Open Code A first look at Open Science Indicators for articles published in 2023
Written by Lauren Cadwallader, Lindsay Morton, and Iain Hrynaszkiewicz This week, PLOS shares the latest update to our Open Science Indicators (OSIs)…
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Open Access Trends in preprint, data, and code sharing, 2019-2022
Written by Lauren Cadwallader, Lindsay Morton, and Iain Hrynaszkiewicz PLOS recently introduced Open Science Indicators (OSIs), a large public dataset identifying and…
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Open Code Explore the first Open Science Indicators dataset—and share your thoughts
Written by Lauren Cadwallader, Lindsay Morton, and Iain Hrynaszkiewicz Open Science is on the rise. We can infer as much from the…
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Open Code The impact of a year of Open Code at PLOS Computational Biology
Written by Lindsay Morton A year ago, in response to community desire for a strong position on code sharing, and in acknowledgement…
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Open Code Uphold the code: How complete, detailed and Open code can enhance understanding, improve reproducibility, and change the shape of the research article
Written by Lindsay Morton Just over a year ago, PLOS Computational Biology introduced a new journal policy requiring authors to make public any…
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Open Code Which solutions best support sharing and reuse of code?
Author: Lauren Cadwallader, Open Research Manager, PLOS PLOS has released a preprint and supporting data on research conducted to understand the needs…
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Innovation Supporting community needs with an enhanced code policy on PLOS Computational Biology
PLOS Computational Biology has adopted an enhanced code sharing policy for all papers submitted from 30 March 2021. The change, announced in…
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Collaboration Exploring code notebooks through community focused collaboration
Written by Lauren Cadwallader, PLOS’ Open Research Manager The lack of reproducibility of research findings is a continuing concern in modern science. …
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Future of Open Series Building the foundation for future research through Open data, code and protocols
This blog is part of our series on the Future of Open Science. Read previous posts here. In our last post, we talked…