How to Get the Most Out of Modern Peer Review
Thu 30 Mar 2017
10:00 – 17:30
Alison Richard Building
Book for free here: https://www.training.cam.ac.uk/osc/event/2080517

The Office of Scholarly Communication invites you to a workshop to discover how you can make peer review count for your research. Join
Cambridge researchers, along with guest speakers from publishers CUP, eLife, F1000, Nature Scientific Data and PLOS, and peer review platform
Publons, to demystify the peer review process.

Topics will include:

-practical tips for the digital age peer-review
-getting formal recognition for your peer review work
-the role of peer-reviewer in checking supporting information, and tips and tricks for peer-reviewing research data
-Open Evaluation – what is it and what does it achieve?
-improving the quality of research through peer review
-innovations in peer review – novel paths towards the same goal

Coffee, lunch and wine will be provided.

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Increasing Openness and Reproducibility in Research
Mon 10 Apr 2017
13:00 – 16:00
Betty and Gordon Moore Library, Glass Room
Book for free here: https://www.training.cam.ac.uk/osc/event/2077989

Please join us for a workshop, hosted by the Office of Scholarly Communication in collaboration with the Center for Open Science (COS),
to learn easy, practical steps you can take to increase the reproducibility of your work.

The workshop, led by Courtney Soderberg of the COS, will be hands-on.
Using example studies, attendees will actively participate in creating a reproducible project from start to finish, looking at:
– Project documentation
– Version control
– Pre-Analysis plans
– Open source tools like the Center for Open Science’s Open Science Framework to easily implement these concepts in a scientific workflow.

This workshop is aimed at graduate students and postdocs, across disciplines, who are engaged in quantitative research. The workshop does
not require any specialized knowledge of programming. Participants will gain a foundation for incorporating reproducible, transparent practices
into their current workflows.

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Developments in Open Science in the Netherlands
Tues 11 April 2017

10:00 – 11:00, Milstein Seminar, Cambridge University Library
Book here for free: https://www.training.cam.ac.uk/osc/event/2101333
Repeat session:
16:00 – 17:00, 17 Mill Lane, Seminar Room G
Book here for free: https://www.training.cam.ac.uk/osc/event/2101354

In this talk, Hylke Annema of Tilburg University will tell us about the current developments in the Netherlands and at Tilburg University.

The Netherlands has been a front-runner in the transition to Open Science. The Dutch government has mandated all universities to have 100%
Open Access to academic publications by 2024 and has recently broadened its scope to research data. These plans can only succeed by national
cooperation of all parties involved.

The chairman of Tilburg University is one of three main negotiators with the publishers. As such, the university is expected to be leading the
development of policies in Open Science and the monitoring of progress.

Discussion among participants about best practices is highly encouraged.