November 2018 - lmu-osc

Massive replication project released in psychology
by LMU Open Science Center News Nov. 21, 2018

Nov. 21, 2018

[News from our website: https://www.osc.uni-muenchen.de/news/manylabs2/index.html] # Many Labs 2: Massive replication project released in psychology An international team of researchers in the field of psychology has published a massive new study in the journal Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science. More than 15,000 experimental subjects took part in the project, the purpose of which was to repeat 28 psychological studies that have already been published in the literature. The outcome of their efforts was a sobering one: the results of only 14 could be reproduced. In all, 60 research groups working at institutions all over the world were involved in the replication study, including one led by OSC member Dr. Felix Schönbrodt of the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences at LMU. Read the full story at the LMU press release [German](https://www.uni-muenchen.de/forschung/news/2018/schoenbrodt_studien.html) / [English](https://www.en.uni-muenchen.de/news/newsarchiv/2018/schoenbrodt_reproducibility.html). More information on the project, which is one of the largest replication efforts ever in psychology can be found here: https://cos.io/our-services/research/many-labs-2-project-overview/ ![](cid:8E7B6E09-E380-41E1-A372-EB639CC552D6@psy.lmu.de "ml2.jpg") --- ![](cid:37FA0F9B-26F0-430B-B201-6BB76478A15A@psy.lmu.de "PastedImage.png") http://www.osc.lmu.de/ Join our email newsletter: https://lists.lrz.de/mailman/listinfo/lmu-osc Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/lmu_osc

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Support for Registered Reports
by LMU Open Science Center News Nov. 15, 2018

Nov. 15, 2018

*Please read this message from our OSC member Xenia Schmalz: We need your support for Registered Reports!* Dear colleagues, Many of you have probably heard of a new format for journal articles: Registered Reports (RR). With RRs, you write a study and analysis plan, and submit it to a journal before you collect the data. You get feedback from the reviewers on the design of the study. If the reviewers approve of the methods, you get conditional acceptance. This means that the study will be published regardless of its outcome. Exploratory analyses can still be reported, but they will be explicitly distinguished from the confirmatory analyses relating to the original hypotheses. The RR format is good for science, because it combats publication bias. It is also good for us as individual researchers, because it helps us to avoid situations where we invest time and resources into a study, only to find out in retrospect that we overlooked some design flaw and/or that non-significant findings are uninformative, yielding the study unpublishable. You can find more information and answers to some FAQs about RRs here <https://cos.io/rr/>. With a group of colleagues, we would like to convince more journals to offer RRs as a publication option, along with the traditional formats. We have already contacted over a hundred journals editors in our respective fields (in my case, reading research/psycholinguistics). You can see a list of journals which have been approached and their responses here <https://osf.io/3wct2/wiki/Journal%20Responses/>. A full list of journals which offer RRs can be found here <https://cos.io/rr/>. As a next step, we would like to extend the initiative. First, joining forces with other psycholinguistics researchers who have been collecting signatures, we would like to continue approaching psychology and linguistics journals with a pooled list of signatories. We will base the letters on this <https://osf.io/3wct2/wiki/Journal%20Requests/> template. Second, together with researchers from other areas and fields, we would like to approach scientific journals with a wider audience: specifically, we are working on a letter to PNAS. The editors have announced that PNAS will be offering a new format, namely brief reports. While this could be an excellent outlet for groundbreaking discoveries, we would like to suggest to the editorial board that they also consider accepting registered reports, which will support high-quality hypothesis-driven confirmatory research. You can read the draft here <https://osf.io/epsg2/>. Third, we are working on an open letter, which will be addressed to all journal editors, to outline the necessity and the advantages of offering Registered Reports. You can read the draft here <https://osf.io/5shpk/>. We are currently collecting signatories. If you are willing to support this initiative, please let me know, via this google form <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1rQd17z8M9sGHNOV9G1KcQGjCwewFlR_4oU4sKirHLi…>, or directly via email (xenia.schmalz(a)gmail.com) Please let me know if you have any comments or questions. Also, I would be grateful if you could forward my request to any colleagues or mailing lists if you think it could be of interest. Note that we're aiming for a broad audience, so researchers from any field are welcome to sign. Thank you very much in advance! Kind regards, Xenia --- ![](cid:3D42E27C-C963-4A73-BC4D-C4654454EC90@psy.lmu.de "PastedImage.png") http://www.osc.lmu.de/ Join our email newsletter: https://lists.lrz.de/mailman/listinfo/lmu-osc Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/lmu_osc

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LMU Open Science Initiative in Medicine
by LMU Open Science Center News Nov. 8, 2018

Nov. 8, 2018

Dear all, a new working group has been founded in medicine: **LMU Open Science Initiative in Medicine**. See https://www.osc.uni-muenchen.de/members/osim/index.html It aims to promote open science in medicine by developing training programs and offering strategies on how to improve effectiveness and reproducibility of basic and clinical medical research. Together with the LMU Open Science Center, the final goal is to improve scientific practices and reproducibility in medical research at LMU and beyond. If you are a faculty member of LMU medical science and want to join the initiative, do not hesitate to contact us. ### Contact [Prof. Dr. Ulrich Mansmann](https://www.osc.uni-muenchen.de/members/individual-members/mansmann/index.html) [Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Plesnila](https://www.osc.uni-muenchen.de/members/individual-members/plesnila/index.html) [Dr. Heidi Seibold](https://www.osc.uni-muenchen.de/members/individual-members/seibold1/index.html) --- PD Dr. Felix Schönbrodt Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany Managing Director of the LMU Open Science Center | http://www.osc.lmu.de Psychological Methods and Assessment, Department Psychology | http://www.psy.lmu.de/pm_en/team/staff/schoenbrodt http://www.osc.lmu.de/ Join our email newsletter: https://lists.lrz.de/mailman/listinfo/lmu-osc Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/lmu_osc ![](cid:C01F54DD-9F6F-44EB-9825-629E6DEF3829@psy.lmu.de "PastedImage.png")

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Live-screening & panel discussion: "Paywall - The Business of Scholarship", Dec 14
by LMU Open Science Center News Nov. 5, 2018

Nov. 5, 2018

# Live-screening & panel discussion: "Paywall - The Business of Scholarship", ## Dec 14, 2018, 14:30 - 16:30, Lecture Hall M 018, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1, LMU Munich. We are happy to announce that a collaboration of the LMU Open Science Center, LMU University Library, and Leibniz Institute for Psychology Information (ZPID) will present the movie "Paywall - The Business of Scholarship" in Munich. As a special guest, we welcome the director and producer of the movie, Prof. Jason Schmitt (Clarkson University, USA). The movie is a documentary which focuses on the need for open access to research and science. It questions the rationale behind the $25.2 billion a year that flows into for-profit academic publishers, examines the 35-40% profit margin associated with the top academic publishers, and looks at the factors impeding global academic innovation. We will live-screen the movie, and have a subsequent panel discussion, featuring the following panelists: - Prof. Jason Schmitt (Director and producer of the movie; Clarkson University, USA) - Prof. Michael Bosnjak (Leibniz Institute for Psychology Information, ZPID, Trier) - Volker Schallehn (Head of Electronic Publishing, University Library, LMU) - Prof. Nikolaus Plesnila (LMU Open Science Center; University Hospital of Munich) See the trailer of the movie here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaHlcwyn2Jk&feature=youtu.be The event will take place on Friday, Dec 14, 2018 from 14:30 to 16:30 in Lecture Hall M 018, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1, LMU Munich. ##Claim your (free!) ticket here: http://www.leibniz-psychology.org/paywall/ ##Feel free to forward this announcement to interested friends and colleagues! --- Dr. Felix Schönbrodt Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany Managing Director of the LMU Open Science Center | http://www.osc.lmu.de Psychological Methods and Assessment, Department Psychology | http://www.psy.lmu.de/pm_en/team/staff/schoenbrodt ![](cid:7D1725D4-11BC-4300-9DC2-86DE14BCDE5C@psy.lmu.de "OSC_Paywall_Plakat.jpg")

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