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Institute signs up to Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Guidelines

Posted on 21 July 2015

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Institute signs up to Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) Guidelines

Posted by n.chuehong on 21 July 2015 - 4:49pm

The Center for Open Science have developed the TOP (Transparency and Openness Promotion) Guidelines to promote the transparency and reproducibility of research.

TOP includes eight modular standards, each with three levels of increasing stringency. Journals can select which of the eight transparency standards they wish to adopt for their journal, and select a level of implementation for the selected standards. These features provide flexibility for adoption depending on disciplinary variation, but simultaneously establish community standards.

These guidelines, including around availability of code and data, are very similar to what the Institute has been promoting in our guidance for researchers and software developers. We are therefore delighted to announce that we have become an organizational signatory to the guidelines, and that the Journal of Open Research Software has adopted the TOP Guidelines too.

For more details on the TOP guidelines, please see the Center for Open Science website.

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