[ CENTER FOR OPEN SCIENCE - Opening Influenza Research | Research Funding ]
Event details
| Date | 30.11.2019 |
| Category | Call for proposal |
Aim: The Public Library of Science (PLOS), the Center for Open Science (COS), and Flu Lab are collaborating to encourage the availability of all findings that contribute to the influenza body of knowledge. Through the Opening Influenza Research project, they invite the influenza research community to “empty the file drawers” and contribute to a thorough aggregation of open and accessible findings.
Three types of projects will be considered for funding:
Whichever submission type is selected, the primary focus of the work must be related to influenza, though the specific discipline or methodology may be biomedical, behavioral, epidemiological, or interdisciplinary.
How to Apply: A submission starts with a pre-submission inquiry to COS to confirm eligibility; only inquiries that confirm eligibility with COS will be eligible for an award. A response can be expected within 4 business days. After confirming eligibility, the researchers submit either their full paper or registered report by the deadline listed below.
Deadline: 30 November 2019
Further information
Three types of projects will be considered for funding:
- Emptying the file-drawers of existing negative and null results: Researchers often feel pressure to leave experiments showing negative or inconclusive results out of reports for concern that they decrease publishability, yet the cost of doing so undermines the overall value and credibility of the published literature. For this special collection, we encourage laboratories to empty their file drawers and share negative and null results to highlight their existence and facilitate understanding of research pathways that are unproductive or not yet robust for advancing influenza research. Accepted papers are eligible to receive a $5,000 award and coverage of article processing charges.
- Emptying the file drawers of existing replication studies: Many laboratories conduct replication studies but do not publish them because of perceived lack of publishability. This same special collection, therefore, also explicitly invites replication studies and encourages comprehensive reporting of successes and failures to foster insight on the conditions under which phenomena can be observed. Accepted papers are eligible to receive a $5,000 award and coverage of article processing charges.
- New, proposed, highly-powered replications of important results in influenza research: Authors can propose to conduct highly-powered replications of existing influenza findings to improve credibility and verifiability of existing claims. Proposals will be reviewed as Registered Reports by PLOS ONE and PLOS Biology prior to conducting the research. Successful Stage 1 peer review concludes with provisional acceptance of the research for publication, preregistration of the experiment(s) and analysis plan(s), and a funding award. Stage 2 peer review after the research is completed assesses only adherence to the accepted protocol and analysis plan and appropriate calibration of the conclusions. Successful Stage 1 proposals are eligible for up to $25,000 awards to conduct the research and coverage of article processing fees.
Whichever submission type is selected, the primary focus of the work must be related to influenza, though the specific discipline or methodology may be biomedical, behavioral, epidemiological, or interdisciplinary.
How to Apply: A submission starts with a pre-submission inquiry to COS to confirm eligibility; only inquiries that confirm eligibility with COS will be eligible for an award. A response can be expected within 4 business days. After confirming eligibility, the researchers submit either their full paper or registered report by the deadline listed below.
Deadline: 30 November 2019
Further information
- More information about the program is available here
- The submission inquiry can be submitted here
- For any other questions, please contact the Research Office
Practical information
- General public
- Free