Working Groups/Science/Oxford

What is Oxford Open Science?
A group for anyone in Oxford interested in projects related to open science. Maybe you're looking at ways to share scientific data more effectively, planning a project involving citizen crowd sourcing, want to make your research as accessible as possible or maybe you're just interested in how openness and transparency could change the way we do science.

The group will focus on creating useful tools, apps and guidelines for open science and also building a community in Oxford, with both discussion based meetups and hack sessions planned for the future.

Oxford
We have a variety of means for you to keep updated on meetups and other events:


 * Open Science Oxford Mailing List
 * Follow @oxopensci on Twitter
 * Join the Facebook group
 * Email the group coordinator Jenny on     jenny.molloy@zoo.ox.ac.uk

For general information, discussion forum, useful links and information on completed projects:


 * Website under construction

For work in progress and in depth planning:


 * Group Wiki

Further Afield

 * For discussion of all things open science consider joining the OKFN Open Science mailing list.

This is a medium volume list with occassional flurries of activity so do consider the digest option. For a taste of the kind of discussions that come up, take a look at the list archives.


 * Check out the following websites
 * evolutionofscience.org has links to lots of info and a great run down of the key areas of open science
 * OKFN Open Science working group has links to open science projects and info.
 * Open Science Federation has a very active Google+ account for all the latest news and updates

Feel free to edit this list to add more of your favourite sites (but please don't make it too long! Many of the sites listed above have their own link pages with extensive coverage of open science projects and blogs)

Sharing Knowledge in Medicine and Open Clinical Trial Data


Where: Oxford e-Research Centre, 7 Keble Road, Oxford

When: Wed 28 Nov, 19:30-21:00

Description

Dr Richard Lehman, retired GP, "Journal Watch" blogger for the BMJ and researcher with the Yale Open Data Access and Medtronic independent review projects, will speak on the issue of knowledge sharing in medicine and the steps that are required to ensure that clinical knowledge is accessible to the people who need it, be they researchers, clinicians or the public.

We will also be discussing the recent vocal push for open clinical trial data, as exemplified by the publication of Ben Goldacre's latest book 'Bad Pharma' and the BMJ's campaign for open Tamiflu data - why is this important, what are the barriers and how can they be overcome?

OOS is a group for anyone interested in open science projects with a focus on creating useful tools, apps and guidelines alongside building an Oxford based community with monthly meetups and periodic lectures, debates and workshops. For more information email jenny.molloy@zoo.ox.ac.uk or check out the group wiki http://wiki.okfn.org/Working_Groups/Science/Oxford

(Poster image by Candy from under CC-BY-SA)

Upcoming Meetings in 2012
All meetings unless otherwise stated will be held on a Wednesday evenings, 7-8:30pm at OeRC on Keble Road (http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/about/how-to-find-us)

27 June - 'Publishing models of the future' A round table discussion on exciting developments in scientific publishing with representatives from major publishers and most importantly YOU stating where you want to see publication heading and how we might get there.

25 July - 'What can you do with open bibliographic data?'

22 August - 'Training a new generation of open scientists'

26 September - 'Citizen Science: The role of openness'

24 October - 'The Bodleian on Open Science'

28 November - 'The ethics and practicalities of open clinical trial data'

Previous Meetings
|24 Oct 2012 (OeRC)

The Bodleian on Open Science

|26 Sep 2012 (OeRC)

Citizen Science: The Role of Openness

|27 Aug 2012 (OeRC)

How best can we train graduates for research in the age of ‘Big Data’? (video coming soon!)

27 June 2012 (OeRC)

Publishing Models of the Future: A round table discussion on exciting developments in scientific publishing with representatives from major publishers and most importantly YOU stating where you want to see publication heading and how we might get there.

23 April 2012 (OeRC)

Lightning talks from Eamonn Maguire, Diane Cabell, Peter Murray-Rust,Sophie Kershaw

Discussion on how to share your data effectively, legal barriers to data sharing in the biosciences, how text and data mining could revolutionise science and graduate training for open science.

15 March 2012 (The Oxford Hub, Turl Street)

Lightning talks from Mark Hahnel, David Shotton, David De Roure, Simon Benjamin, Tanya Gray

Discussion on graduate training on open science topics, Hargreaves report and call for submissions on copyright law to IPO, the future of the group and planning open science events in Oxford