From: Richard Poynder <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2016 16:22:42 +0000

Since the birth of the open access movement in 2002, demands for
greater openness and transparency in the research process have both
grown and broadened. Today there are calls not just for OA to research
papers, but (amongst other things) to the underlying data, to peer
review reports, and to lab notebooks.

In response to these developments, earlier this year the Research
Ideas & Outcomes (RIO) Journal was launched. RIO’s mission is to open
up the entire research cycle — by publishing project proposals, data,
methods, workflows, software, project reports and research articles.
These will all be made freely available on a single collaborative
platform.

Unsurprisingly perhaps, the first grant proposal made openly available
on RIO was published by a physicist — Finnish-born Toma Susi, who is
based at the University of Vienna in Austria.

An interview with Susi about his proposal, and his experience of
publishing on RIO is available here:

http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2015/12/the-oa-interviews-toma-susi-physicist.html

Richard Poynder