Open Science at TSL
Open science is not just a practice—it’s a commitment to advancing research, fostering collaboration, and maintaining the rigor and integrity of scientific inquiry.
TSL students and postdocs reviewing preprints together at one of our Preprint Pizza Parties
What is Open Science?
Open science is about making scientific research, data, and dissemination accessible, fostering transparency and collaboration. At TSL, we embrace open science values because they align with our mission of advancing science and positively impacting society through our work.
TSL's Commitment to Open Science
TSL scientists are expected to share their work openly to maximize its impact. Our aim is for research to be free to publish, free to read, as quickly as possible. This commitment to open science begins with preprinting and extends to publishing datasets, mini-papers, posters, and other research outputs.
Beyond Traditional Journals
There are many ways to share your research beyond traditional journals:
Preprints: Enable rapid dissemination of findings, open feedback, and peer review.
Mini-papers: Allow faster publication of datasets or sub-projects.
Platforms like bioRxiv and Zenodo are popular for sharing preprints and mini-papers. All these publications come with a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), ensuring a permanent record, citable units, and protection of priority.
Open collaborations: Facilitate dynamic partnerships.
Preprinting and Journals
Preprinting doesn’t conflict with publishing in traditional journals—most publishers now fully support preprints. See this list of academic publishers by preprint policy—it's all green these days! List on Wikipedia
Worried About Scooping?
Concerned about scooping? Preprinting actually protects you from being scooped. It allows you to establish priority for your findings. Check out this resource: Worried About Scooping? What Scooping Really Means.
What Open Science Is NOT
Uncontrolled sharing of data without credit: DOIs ensure proper credit to authors, and preprinting safeguards your work and documents the priority of your discoveries.
A rejection of peer review: Open science values peer review, especially for preprints. At TSL, we promote this through the TSL Preprint Club and platforms like PREreview.
Incompatible with confidentiality or IP protection: Open science can coexist with maintaining confidentiality and protecting your discoveries through intellectual property (IP). At TSL, we have been seamlessly collaborating with industry for many years while upholding our commitment to open science.