Openness – The Mnemonic Lode

Wrangling messy data in R using the tidyverse

November 19, 2019 Measurement Openness No Comments

When I was learning R, I found the biggest obstacle to be figuring out how to organize and format the data – how to go from raw, messy data to something I could enter into an analysis. This process has become much easier with the introduction of the tidyverse suite…

I’ve got a lab handbook now

November 6, 2018 Measurement Openness No Comments

So in 2019 I can have a different New Year’s resolution than I’ve set for the last several years, because in 2018 I actually wrote my lab handbook. There are lots of great reasons to have a lab handbook. How your’s works and what you focus on will depend on…

Going for a Registered Report?

August 17, 2018 Measurement Openness Research 2 Comments

Candice C. Morey and Loukia Tzavella Registered Reports are a type of journal article in which the journal evaluates a proposal for a hypothetical research project. The Stage 1 manuscript includes an introductory literature review, details of the proposed method, and a plan for analyzing the data. Reviewers consider this…

The Peer Reviewers’ Openness Initiative, Year 1

January 7, 2018 Openness No Comments

The Peer Reviewer’s Openness (PRO) initiative is a grass-roots movement in which reviewers agitate for new standards of transparency at the journals who depend on them. I’m a signatory to this initiative and a co-author on the paper announcing it, and since 1 January 2017 I have been enforcing PRO…

ESCoP preliminary satellite event: The new Journal of Cognition

August 5, 2017 Academia Openness No Comments

In December 2016, ESCoP made the momentous decision to stop working on behalf of a publishing company and instead control our own journal. This presents the opportunity for us to create the communication platform for cognitive psychology that researchers want. We envision a journal that is free for all to…

Who benefits from for-profit academic publishing?

April 14, 2017 Academia Openness No Comments

If you’ve never considered how academic publishing works, start here. If you’re interested in learning more about the forces at work, a group of scholars, librarians, and publishing experts have written a white paper detailing where the money in publishing goes, especially in open-access publishing. We can’t for a minute forget that traditional publishers’…

II. What’s in a fair article processing charge?

January 18, 2017 Academia Openness 5 Comments

A companion post explaining why I think scholars should switch to publishing via non-profit open-access is here. Ideally, a scholar would know before choosing an open-access journal how the article processing charge (APC) is reckoned. It should always be clear what we are paying for. APCs for open-access publishing vary…

I. Why non-profit, open-access publishing is better for scholars

January 18, 2017 Academia Openness 3 Comments

Scholars, who do the bulk of the work involved in academic publishing, are faced with a choice: 1) give away your work to a for-profit journal to publish, or 2) pay a non-profit journal an article processing charge. Let’s look at the costs of publishing, both in terms of money…