When we (the authors) look back a couple of years, to the earliest outline of this chapter, the open science movement within psychology seemed to be in its infancy. Plenty of people were pointing to problems in psychology research, collecting archival data to support the claims, and suggesting how science could be improved. Now it seems that the open science movement has reached adolescence. Things are happening—and they are happening quickly. New professional organizations are being formed to uncover and facilitate ways to improve science, often through new technology, and some old organizations are adopting new procedures to remedy problems created by past practices, often involving revising journal policies. Researchers are changing the way they teach, practice, and convey science. And scientific information and opinions are traveling fast. In blogs, tweets, Facebook groups, op eds, science journalism, circulation of preprints, postprint comments, video talks, and so on, more people are engaged in communicating science, and hoping to improve science, than ever before. Thus, any new technology, new procedure, new website, or new controversy we describe is likely to be superseded (or solved) even by the time this chapter is published. But the core values of open science should remain.

Citation
Katherine S. Corker, Elizabeth A. Gilbert & Barbara A. Spellman, Open Science, in Stevens’ Handbook of Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, Volume 5, Methodology, John Wiley & Sons, 729 (2018).
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