Posts by John Chodacki
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UC-wide protocols.io Pilot: A Five-Year Journey to Promote Research Reproducibility
Since 2019, the University of California (UC) system has partnered with protocols.io to tackle one of the most pressing challenges in research: the lack of transparent, reproducible methods in scientific publications. This five-year pilot allowed UC researchers free access to the Premium tier plan with tools to create, share, and collaborate on research protocols. The pilot will end on October 31, 2024, however, UC members of protocols.io will be able to continue to utilize their existing accounts at the free Open Research tier going forward. As the pilot concludes, we reflect on its successes and outline what comes next for […]
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Pathways to Open Access: Open Infrastructure and CDL
The Pathways blog series highlights CDL’s efforts on various pathways to open access and illustrates how diverse approaches can complement and reinforce each other–and how they can raise productive tensions that push us to think more critically about the work we do. We believe this kind of approach can move us toward true and comprehensive transformation of the scholarly communications landscape. What is the strategy described in this post? In this post, we focus on open infrastructure. While this topic is not always prominent in discussions about open access, it has become an essential part of our strategy at CDL and underpins […]
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UC’s protocols.io pilot extended for two additional years
Three years ago, University of California launched a pilot with protocols.io, bringing unlimited Premium accounts to all 10 UC campuses and the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (LBNL). Today, we are happy to announce an extension for an additional two years – through May 31, 2024. Pilot extension As we seek to advance open access and open research on several fronts, the University of California continues to support ways to unlock the underlying methods and protocols used in lab experiments. “Our Premium account enables an unlimited number of individuals and groups to use the platform for private methods,” explains Anneliese Taylor, […]
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UC-wide pilot of protocols.io
One of the serious barriers to reproducibility of research is the lack of detailed methods in published articles. As trainees leave a research lab, it is often impossible to identify precisely the steps of their performed experiments. As we look to tackle the various aspects of open access and open research, the University of California continues to explore how we can unlock the underlying methods and protocols used in lab experiments. With this goal in mind, we are excited to announce a new pilot for UC-wide use of protocols.io — an open access repository for research methods. The pilot, which […]
