Enriching the neuroscience data commons: An interview with the Editors-in-Chief of NeuroCommons

NeuroCommons is a new Open Access journal published with BMC that welcomes submissions from across the full breadth of the neurosciences. Today the journal is launching a call for papers to invite submissions that demonstrate why data sharing matters and show how data reuse is leading to new scientific insights. Read more about the new series and how to submit here. What is the intent of the Commons and how does NeuroCommons fit in? The concept of the Commons relates to a set of resources shared by a community or the public. In our field, anytime someone makes their data, analyses code, protocols, workflows or related resources available to the broader community it becomes part of the neuroscience commons. By launching our new journal, NeuroCommons, our intent is to provide a publication-based mechanism to increase the utility and the visibility of public neuroscience. We also hope to further elaborate and discuss what the Commons for neuroscience looks like and how it should operate. What benefits does the neuroscience community stand to gain by making open sharing of FAIR scholarly outcomes the norm? We have to consider the benefits from the perspective of both the researcher and society at large. For society, we believe that open and FAIR neuroscience means better neuroscience that will accelerate discovery.  For the researchers, an effective Commons results in receiving more credit for the different types of research output they produce. Given the benefits, why do you th...
Source: BioMed Central Blog - Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Biology Open Access Publishing Technology data Data sharing NeuroCommons Q&A Source Type: blogs