NORRN February update
Upcoming open and reproducible science events across Norway
Welcome to the first Norwegian Reproducibility Network (NORRN) newsletter for 2023. It’s been just over one year since we launched NORRN, and we’re very much looking forward what’s ahead for reproducible science in Norway. You may have noticed that things look a bit different and that’s because we’ve changed our email newsletter provider, we hope you like the change!
Here are a few events coming up in February and March on research management, open data, and science communication (all delivered in English), so mark these dates below in your calendars.
Research Data Management in the active phase of research (February 17th)
This webinar will give an introduction on how to organize your data in a structured way keep your data tidy document your data in a way that it is understandable for yourself and others, safely store and backup your data, and make use of available resources at UiB (Organiser: UiB, Location: Zoom).
For more information, visit the webinar’s webpage.
Open your data with DataverseNO (February 23rd)
In this talk, Philipp Conzett will present DataverseNO and how and why this is an important contribution to Norwegian research infrastructure. Next, Dr Live Kvale will describe how the University of Oslo Library contributes by assisting you as a researcher in increasing the FAIRness of the data trough curation and a dialogue regarding enhancement of metadata/documentation and file organization before the dataset is published (Organiser: UiO, Location: Georg Sverdrups hus and Zoom).
For more information, visit the event’s webpage.
Make your research visible using researcher profiles (March 17th)
Having a researcher profile is a great way to showcase contributions to your field and open science engagement. Author IDs, which ensure your works are correctly attributed, are also allocated by some services. However, there are many services to choose from, with various features and audiences, and it can be difficult to navigate. This seminar will give an introduction to the landscape of researcher profile services and advice about what to choose along with a demonstration of the main features in ORCID, an author ID system used by many journals and funding agencies to identify authors. This will include how to add your works quickly using automatic import functions. This talk will also cover how to showcase various open science outputs such as publications, conference contributions, peer-reviews, preprints, open datasets and code (Organiser: UiB, Location: Zoom).
For more information, visit the webinar’s webpage.
Public health reporting: an open source approach (March 30th)
Every day during the pandemic, Sykdomspulsen team at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (FHI/NIPH) fetched data from more than 15 data sources, cleaned, censored datasets and carried out a wide range of statistical analyses. Over 1000 situational reports containing automated graphs and tables were produced before breakfast time. In this talk Chi Zhang will discuss how Sykdomspulsen team used and developed open source software to make public health surveillance and reporting more efficient, followed up by a discussion on the benefits and concerns of making these data public (Organiser: UiO, Location: Georg Sverdrups hus and Zoom).
For more information, visit the event’s webpage.
Data Management Plan for projects with personal data (March 30th)
A Data Management Plan (DMP) is a requirement from several funders and part of many Norwegian institution’s open science policies. This course will demonstrate how to set up a data management plan for projects containing personal data using the DMP- tool from NSD. (Organiser: NTNU, Location: Zoom).
For more information, visit the event’s webpage.
PCI RR is recruiting editors from all research fields
The Peer Community In (PCI) initiative is a non-profit, non-commercial platform that publishes the peer-reviews of preprints. The overarching aim of this researcher-run organisation is to create specific communities of researchers reviewing and recommending, for free, unpublished preprints in their field.
PCI is recruiting editors (what PCI calls ‘recommenders’) to help them handle the large number of submissions they receive. They are especially in need of recommenders from the following fields: consciousness, neuroimaging, psychology, behavioral economics, astronomy, and social sciences.
Find out how you can join the team on the PCI website.