About Iain Hrynaszkiewicz
Iain Hrynaszkiewicz is Publisher, Open Research at Public Library of Science (PLOS), where he leads the conceptualisation and development of new products and services that add value to the PLOS portfolio by supporting and enabling open science.
Iain was previously Head of Data Publishing at Springer Nature where he developed and implemented research data policies and services, and was publisher of Nature Research Group’s Scientific Data journal. He has also been Outreach Director at Faculty of 1000 (F1000), and spent seven years at the first commercial open access publisher BioMed Central (BMC) in a variety of editorial, publishing and product/policy development roles.
Iain is part of several research/publishing community projects related to data sharing and reproducible research. He founded and is co-chair of an Interest Group in the Research Data Alliance (RDA) that is setting standards for journal research data policy globally, and founder of the annual early-career researcher conference, Better Science through Better Data. He has published numerous papers related to data sharing, open access, and the role of publishers in reproducible research - one of which has been cited nearly 200 times.
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Nature Research journals improve accessibility of data availability statements
The Nature Research journals have taken further steps to promote transparency and reproducibility by making information on the availability of research data within our articles easier to access.
Extending Research Data Support to the whole community
Providing professional research data curation to all published researchers
More support for open data in ecology and evolution
Research Data Support is now available to all authors publishing in Nature Ecology & Evolution.
Research Data Support pilot for Wellcome-funded researchers
The Wellcome Trust is partnering with Springer Nature on a pilot to help researchers make their research datasets more findable and accessible.
A new approach to supporting data sharing in breast cancer research
A partnership between Springer Nature and the Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF) is enabling researchers to make their research data more accessible.
Six things publishers can do to support open data and reproducible research
This post is based on a short talk I gave at the SpotOn London 2018 conference, and describes six different areas in which scholarly publishers can make practical changes to improve the reliability and reproducibility of published research.
Helping institutions understand how researchers are sharing their data
To help institutions and libraries understand if and how researchers are sharing data associated with their publications we’ve introduced a new service, Data availability reporting.