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<p><em>The Week in Review is our roundup of what’s new in open
science from the past week. If you have news or announcements
you’d like passed on to the community, be sure to share on
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<h2>Articles & Blogs</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.simonsfoundation.org/"
data-mce-href="https://www.simonsfoundation.org/">The Simons
Foundation</a> just awarded a grant to <a
href="http://scistarter.com/index.html"
data-mce-href="http://scistarter.com/index.html">SciStarter</a>.
<a href="https://twitter.com/arvind_suresh"
data-mce-href="https://twitter.com/arvind_suresh">Arvind
Suresh</a> writes about it in his blog entitled <a
href="http://scistarter.com/blog/2015/09/simons-foundation-grant-scistarters-project-find/#sthash.KDNV2sf5.dpbs"
data-mce-href="http://scistarter.com/blog/2015/09/simons-foundation-grant-scistarters-project-find/#sthash.KDNV2sf5.dpbs">"Scistarter’s
Project Finder Will Soon Be More Readily Available to Everyone
to Guide Citizen Scientists to Pertinent Research Projects"</a><br
data-mce-bogus="1">
</li>
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<ul>
<li><a href="http://bmjopen.bmj.com/"
data-mce-href="http://bmjopen.bmj.com/">BMJ Open</a> published
an article by Maria K Kowalczuk, Frank Dudbridge, Shreeya Nanda,
Stephanie L Harriman, Jigisha Patel, Elizabeth C Moylan which
took a look at the comparison between " ... quality reports by
author-suggested and non-author-suggested reviewers in journals
operating on open or single-blind peer review models". Read the
full text and their findings <a
href="http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/5/9/e008707.full"
data-mce-href="http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/5/9/e008707.full">here</a>.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><a
href="https://www.innovationpolicyplatform.org/content/open-science"
data-mce-href="https://www.innovationpolicyplatform.org/content/open-science">"Making
Open Science a Reality"</a>, a full report by the <a
href="http://www.oecd.org/"
data-mce-href="http://www.oecd.org/">Organization for Economic
Co-operation and Development (OECD)</a> posted on the <a
href="https://www.innovationpolicyplatform.org/"
data-mce-href="https://www.innovationpolicyplatform.org/">Innovation
Policy Platform</a> site. A great read for those interested it
taking a look at the background and challenges of open science
today.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Government and Policy</h2>
<ul>
<li>Open government and open science were front and centre last
week when the US Government announced new policies on Citizen
Science and Crowdsourcing at a live forum entitled "Open Science
and Innovation: Of the People, By the People, For the People". <a
href="https://twitter.com/chandraclarke"
data-mce-href="https://twitter.com/chandraclarke">Chandra
Clarke</a> writes a great <a
href="http://www.popsci.com/white-house-hosting-forum-on-citizen-science-and-crowdsourcing"
data-mce-href="http://www.popsci.com/white-house-hosting-forum-on-citizen-science-and-crowdsourcing">blog</a>
in the lead up to the forum posted on <a
href="http://www.popsci.com/blog-network"
data-mce-href="http://www.popsci.com/blog-network">Popular
Science</a>. Lots of comments and links can be seen at
#whcitsci. Take a look at the <a
href="http://coons.senate.gov/download/?id=063AEFE6-CB5C-42FD-8FD6-57F58BD1AC5B"
data-mce-href="http://coons.senate.gov/download/?id=063AEFE6-CB5C-42FD-8FD6-57F58BD1AC5B">Crowdsourcing
and Citizen Science Act 2015</a> to read about clarifications
to government agencies around the use of crowdsourcing
techniques.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Lessons and Projects</h2>
<ul>
<li>Mozilla Study Groups have created a new index to list Study
Group lessons from around the world by topic, research field and
difficulty level. Check out the new <a
href="http://mozillascience.github.io/studyGroupHandbook/lessons.html#lessons"
data-mce-href="http://mozillascience.github.io/studyGroupHandbook/lessons.html#lessons">Lesson
Index</a> to browse lessons taught so far.</li>
</ul>
<h2>At the Science Lab</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/"
data-mce-href="https://twitter.com/ ">Seth Kenlon</a> <a
href="http://opensource.com/life/15/9/ato-interview-abby-mayes-mozilla-science-lab"
data-mce-href="http://opensource.com/life/15/9/ato-interview-abby-mayes-mozilla-science-lab">interviewed</a>
our Lead Developer, <a href="https://twitter.com/abbycabs"
data-mce-href="https://twitter.com/abbycabs">Abby Cabunoc
Mayes</a>, to get her thoughts on open science and how to
"open up scientific data" prior to the talk Abby will give at <a
href="http://allthingsopen.org/"
data-mce-href="http://allthingsopen.org/">All Things Open</a>
taking place in Raleigh, NC on October 19 & 20.</li>
</ul>
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