As neuroscience increasingly defines and adopts FAIR, the act of
publishing in neuroscience will not only serve to communicate new
research but drive the population of a robust, more data- and
resource-driven ecosystem - the NeuroCommons - on which to build further findings.
This special, open-access, issue
of Neuroinformatics is dedicated to building the
NeuroCommons and will include articles that embody the principles of
open and FAIR neuroscience:
- FAIRification of
neuroscience data, tools and other research objects: What does it take
to move neuroscience closer to the ideal of FAIR?
- Using public data to drive discovery science
- Research infrastructure for neuroscience and how it supports open and FAIR neuroscience
- Standards-based
neuroscience. When and where have standards been effective? What have
we learned about creating standards and gaining adoption? Where are
they lacking?
- Perspectives and commentary on the concept of the
NeuroCommons, e.g., what will it take for neuroscience to become a
data-driven discipline based on pools of open research data? What are
challenges and opportunities? Where have there been successes?