Innovation is best nurtured in an ideally open, diverse, democratic, tolerant, and motivating environment. How can we create and maintain such an environment? We proposed one possible solution: a new open science initiative: a Community-driven Open Research Ecosystem (CORE) or Open Archive Platform and Rigorous Evaluation System for Open Science (RESOS) [see the first article, the 2nd one with an implementation example of OePRESS, and the latest article about CORE with more argument details]. By implementing a sophisticated credit/role incentive mechanism, it strives to establish a new self-sustaining ecosystem for all scientists and researchers in the entire scientific community. We believe that rigorous science requires rigorous evaluation. Scientific innovation won’t be evolving efficiently until such a system is built. You are welcome to visit the project page at github and the new platform under construction at OpenarXiv.org.
Here we aggregate and update resources broadly related to this idea and open science for interested readers. You are also welcome to participate in discussion at our Forum about CORE and RESOS.
Diversity principle for scientific research, human society, and the Universe
[revised from a blog post from W. Tan]Introduction/AbstractDiversity is argued to be the central or original principle based on our ponderance about the evolutionary Universe, life, and human civilization. Egalitarianism, or more precisely equality of opportunity, and many other social tenets such as democracy, freedom, justice, and fairness, are representative or derivative of this central […]
A proposed solution to arbitrary evaluations
The current evaluation system is fundamentally flawed not only for tenure/job securement, but also in peer review of scientific publications and grant applications, especially in basic research of STEM fields. A reform is imperative for continued scientific innovation. Based on our earlier paper, “A Robust Community-Based Credit System to Enhance Peer Review in Scientific Research”, […]
Toward a Community-driven Open Research Ecosystem (CORE)
An initial effort on building a platform for the Community-driven Open Research Ecosystem (CORE) has finally come to life: a development site at GitHub.org and a phase-1 MVP deployment at openarxiv.org. Here is the README.md file about the project:CORE: Community-driven Open Research EcosystemOpenArxiv (CORE) as a live instantiation of CORE, is a novel platform for […]