A Digital Repository and Execution Platform for Interactive Scholarly Publications in Neuroscience

: The CARMEN Virtual Laboratory (VL) is a cloud-based platform which allows neuroscientists to store, share, develop, execute, reproduce and publicise their work. This paper describes new functionality in the CARMEN VL: an interactive publications repository. This new facility allows users to link data and software to publications. This enables other users to examine data and software associated with the publication and execute the associated software within the VL using the same data as the authors used in the publication. The cloud-based architecture and SaaS (Software as a Service) framework allows vast data sets to be uploaded and analysed using software services. Thus, this new interactive publications facility allows others to build on research results through reuse. This aligns with recent developments by funding agencies, institutions, and publishers with a move to open access research. Open access provides reproducibility and verification of research resources and results. Pub...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2016
• Where: NI
• Authors: Victoria J. Hodge, Mark Jessop, Martyn Fletcher, Michael Weeks, Aaron Turner, Tom Jackson, Colin Ingram, Leslie Smith, Jim Austin
• Keywords: Communications, NI 2016