What are /r/Open_Science's favorite Products & Services?

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*shrug*

It's not like the reasoning for it isn't sound. Mastodon is pretty mature and offers a tremendously improved experience over twitter, especially for academic discussions.

I think Zotero does much of what you describe. https://www.zotero.org

Probably several others as well. It is unfortunately not one of the features Wikipedia mentions. Maybe we should crowd-source such a table. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_reference_management_software

What do you mean with "annotation software"? For public web annotations I use Hypothesis and that tends to work well. You can also use it for private notes, but I have never used that option.

If you are in industry and people worry about trade secrets, it may make sense to think of self-hosted software. The self-hosted alternative to Google Docs would be NextCloud.

Some further suggestions from the Delightful Open Science List may be interesting. https://codeberg.org/teaserbot-labs/delightful-open-science/#user-content-collaborative-research

Links to the systems I mention (and more) are in this list op open science. https://codeberg.org/teaserbot-labs/delightful-open-science/#user-content-open-peer-review

The largest peer review system for preprints in Peer Community In ... The most influential Open peer review system for published articles is PubPeer. Unfortunately in practice they mainly get negative reviews and we do not know well how good the good ones are. Self Journal of Science and Peeriodical are still small, but promise to also review good articles.

The most comprehensive list of peer review projects, in practice mostly open peer review when it comes to systems, can be found here: https://reimaginereview.asapbio.org

The actual existing parliament, the one of Bonn, is explained here: https://www.bonner-spendenparlament.de/ It is in German, but automatic translation from German to English is really good. For example: https://www.deepl.com/translator

A open science funding parliament does not exist yet. If it would come via my review system that would be many years in the future. I just wanted to note that I was thinking of it and it would be something we could do independent of grassroots reviews. So I was curious whether more people were thinking in this direction. Unfortunately this post did not go that viral.

if people would buy a crypto currency that can only be spend on open science and burn it, they could also simply give money. Maybe I am getting old. :)

> It is a question of what you want to do vs. what the people using your app want to do.

Oh. totally agree with that. Not saying it will ever happen just that it's not the top priority of features just yet.

We might use Xapian for this use but baby steps.

One issue is that we would need to initialize the PDFs in the background so import would be much slower. But probably not insanely slower.

> The cloud is well and good but most documents I own can not be put on the cloud either for copyright or for other reasons.

You can store it in the cloud just like you would with Dropbox or S3

Doesn't mean your sharing it with anyone just that the cloud is providing storage.

We ARE going to add document sharing but only for shareable documents.

Just imagine it's like a blog. You can put an open licensed PDF on your blog but can't put up something under a copyright that doesn't allow sharing (say a textbook you bought)

> Another thing that makes a lot of difference is If you intend to keep this open source or if you wanted to monetize it in some way.

Monetization and open source are not incompatible.

You can read more about the long term strategy here.

https://getpolarized.io/2019/03/01/polar-personal-knowledge-repository.html

Maybe it was still a bit early and a network with 2 million accounts still small. Including myself we now have 5 readers. ;-)

At least we are now prepared for the next decade. And news just broke that Twitter may join the Fediverse. https://nitter.net/jack/status/1204766078468911106

Mumble can be found here. https://www.mumble.info

Mumble is a decentralized system based on free open source software. Ideally you run it on your own servers, but many offer free servers (for testing). https://www.mumble.com/serverlist/

Mastodon is a social network that looks a lot like twitter. It focusses on short text messages and you can attach pictures. It is decentralized, like email and the web itself, thousands of servers run the software and communicate with each other. For more information: https://joinmastodon.org/

Mastodon has more than 2 million accounts by now. I like it. Because they do not get paid for you to be there and watch ads, they do not have features to pit people against each other (such as quote tweets). Because it is decentralized moderating/curating is no problem and it is a friendly space. There is a server where Nazis hang out, but we do not have to link to that and import their rejection of reality, hatred and bad vibes, like on Twitter.

In case not everyone knows, we also have a feed on Twitter: https://twitter.com/OpenScienceR

This is a pleasant coincidence. I've been thinking about making some changes to my digital workflow.

I'm using Mendeley right now, but planning to switch to Zotero, as I'm not happy with Elsevier's decision to encrypt the database.

I'm also looking for a PDF annotation/reading management software. Something to make and organize digital notes for the PDF papers I read.

I've been trying PDF Annotator and it's okay, but I haven't shelled out the $69.96 for a license. This is something I'm willing to pay for a solution to, as long as you aren't bending me over with Adobe-level prices.

Anyways, I've never really been an early adopter, but I'll plan on giving this a try when I get a chance.

There's a few blockchain+science projects. None of them have so far taken off (like many other blockchain+x projects), because, well... Nobody cares about having those tokens ¯\(ツ)/¯

But anyway, check out that link if you're looking for similar projects. I'm sceptical, but wouldn't mind to be proven wrong :)

The Force11 working group has been formed to campaign for 100% open research for climate change related research. We'll be holding an open vidconf on the 11th Feb come and join us - you can register for vidcon here https://cryptpad.fr/pad/#/2/pad/edit/t5z-3EJz2RzMkKcCg+zDYtL+/