David Mellor

Recent Posts

The NSF Wants You to Help Shape the Future of Science. Here’s How.
January 12th, 2024
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is entering a new era with the release of NSF Public Access Plan 2.0, a significant update to existing public access requirements. Responding...
Tags: Open Science, Policy, OSTP
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Supporting Federal Agency Plans as They Move Into a New Era in Open Science
October 24th, 2023
In August 2022, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) released a memorandum entitled “Ensuring Free, Immediate, and Equitable Access to Federally Funded...
Tags: Open Science, Year of Open Science
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TOP Factor at 2,000 Journals: A Growing Resource for the Scientific Community
December 19th, 2022
Launched in January 2020, TOP Factor has grown to include evaluations of over 2,000 journal policies. TOP Factor evaluates journal policies for their alignment with the standards...
Tags: TOP Guidelines, Transparency & Reproducibility, Open Science, TOP Factor
Looking Back on the Prereg Challenge and Forward To More Credible Research
February 4th, 2019
Just over three years ago, we launched the Prereg Challenge with support from the Laura and John Arnold Foundation as an education campaign designed to initiate preregistration...
Tags: Preregistration
Towards minimal reporting standards for life scientists
November 1st, 2018
Transparency in reporting benefits scientific communication on many levels. While specific needs and expectations vary across fields, the effective use of research findings...
Tags: Scholarly Publishing, Research Best Practices, TOP Guidelines
The Landscape of Open Data Policies
August 29th, 2018
Note: This post was updated on November 7, 2018 to reflect the changes recently implemented by Wiley, described here. The original version of this post can be found on the ...
Tags: Scholarly Publishing, Research Best Practices, TOP Guidelines, Transparency & Reproducibility
Three More Reasons to Take the Preregistration Challenge
May 5th, 2017
Faster reviews, more journals, and encouragement from funders. As you may already know, the Preregistration Challenge is our ongoing education campaign to encourage...
Tags: Transparency, Preregistration, Reproducibility
Next Steps for Promoting Transparency in Science
April 7th, 2017
Springer Nature just added over 2,100 of their journals as signatories to the Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Guidelines, published in Science in 2015. Let that sink in....
Tags: publishing, Transparency, TOP
Interview with Prereg Challenge Award Winner Dr. Allison Skinner
March 27th, 2017
Dr. Allison Skinner is a postdoctoral research associate in the Social Cognitive Development lab and the Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences at the University of Washington....
Tags: Preregistration, Research, Challenge
Open Science and the Marketplace of Ideas
February 24th, 2017
Our mission at COS is to make science more reproducible and dependable. Our strategy to achieve that mission is to make the research process more transparent so that those who...
Tags: Transparency, Preregistration

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