Abstract
Unrestricted dissemination of methodological developments in neuroimaging became the propelling force in advancing our understanding of brain function. However, despite such a rich legacy, it remains not uncommon to encounter software and datasets that are distributed under unnecessarily restricted terms, or that violate terms of third-party products (software or data). With this brief correspondence we would like to recapitulate four important aspects of scientific research practice, which should be taken into consideration as early as possible in the course of any project. Keeping these in check will help neuroimaging to stay at the forefront of the open science movement.
Highlights
A long-standing relationship already exists between open science and neuroimaging research, primarily due to the fact that most research software in the field is free and open source software (FOSS)
The software aspect of open science in neuroimaging is accompanied by open data, with public datasets being made available from archives such as OpenFMRI [5], the NITRC image repository (http:// nitrc.org/ir (NITRC-IR)) [2, 6], and the Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience (http://crcns. org (CRCNS)) [7, 8] web portal
*Correspondence: yaroslav.o.halchenko@onerussian.com 1Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Dartmouth College, 3 Maynard Street, 03755 Hanover, NH, USA 2Department of Psychology and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College, 3 Maynard Street, 03755 Hanover, NH, USA Full list of author information is available at the end of the article neglecting or postponing intellectual property (IP) issues poses a threat to a product’s longevity and availability, and in turn the reproducibility of associated scientific results
Summary
A long-standing relationship already exists between open science and neuroimaging research, primarily due to the fact that most research software in the field is free and open source software (FOSS). *Correspondence: yaroslav.o.halchenko@onerussian.com 1Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Dartmouth College, 3 Maynard Street, 03755 Hanover, NH, USA 2Department of Psychology and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College, 3 Maynard Street, 03755 Hanover, NH, USA Full list of author information is available at the end of the article neglecting or postponing IP issues poses a threat to a product’s (software or data) longevity and availability, and in turn the reproducibility of associated scientific results.
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