Showcasing our favourite ScienceOpen collections

In the last few months at ScienceOpen, we have rolled out an incredible number of new features for our users. Now, we feel it is time to take stock, and reflect on how you are all using them to help enhance your research. We want to recognise some of the valuable work from the global research community in helping to make science more open!

There are now 177 excellent research collections published on ScienceOpen, each with our pretty slick new collection statistics. With this, we want to highlight just a few of the latest collections that have really caught our eye. Here, the collection editors have each done exceptional work in curating and promoting research to create a valuable resource for their communities.

Take your pick!

• Good practices in cognitive neuroscience and science communication – Cyril Pernet and Jonathan Peelle
  • For researchers, scientific integrity and communication have never been more important. This collection contains some excellent articles on statistics and data visualisation and data and code sharing.
• Small-angle X-ray scattering: Recent – Brian Pauw
  • Part of the new SAXS collection series, this automatically updates with the most recent publications in the field. A fantastic educational resource for Chemistry students.
• Research paper of the future – Gail Clement and Plato Smith
  • Papers relating to new models and prototypes of the future research article. Great for those interested in scholarly communication!
• Wikipedia Quality – Egon Willighagen
  • How much do you trust the information in Wikipedia? This collection has some research to illuminate this for you!
• Paleontology of Mongolia – Andrew Farke
  • Mongolia is a treasure trove of fossils for palaeontologists. Learn about what they’ve discovered here!
• Pneumonia, sex, and the environment – Patricia Silveyra (read her Editorial here!)
  • Articles describing the link between air pollution, pneumonia, and the differences between male and female individuals.
• Tics – Kevin Black
  • The science behind tic disorders such as Tourette’s syndrome.
• Higher order chromatin architecture – Wolf Gebhardt
  • Delving into our understanding of the function and structure of higher order chromatin.

• Big Data Privacy – Brijesh Mehta
  • A collection to help learn the basics of privacy preserving techniques and its application to big data analytics and publication.
• Abiotic gradients in fragmented landscapes – Martin Schmidt
  • An overview of articles related to gradients between patches of land that have different uses.
• Open Data in Research – Jasmine Hoover
  • Open Data is rapidly becoming a new standard for many aspects of scholarly communication. The research articles in this collection will help you stay ahead of the game!
• Open Access scholarship and its impact on scholarly communication and library science – Jasmine Hoover
  • No further details needed for this excellent, and extremely topical, collection!

Special mentions

• The Science of Twitter
• The Science of Facebook
• Climate Change: Open Access – Automatically updates with the latest OA articles on climate change published and indexed on ScienceOpen!
• Resource Identification – A critical goal of the Resource Identification Initiative is the widespread adoption of Research Resource Identifiers (RRIDs) to cite resources in the biomedical literature to promote research resource identification, discovery, and reuse.

To become an Editor for your own collection, simply contact us, and we’ll get things rolling! The only thing you need is the desire to create one!