title: A Digital Repository and Execution Platform for Interactive Scholarly Publications in Neuroscience.
abstract: 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. Publications and their associated data and software will be assured of long-term preservation and curation in the repository. Further, analysing research data and the evaluations described in publications frequently requires a number of execution stages many of which are iterative. The VL provides a scientific workflow environment to combine software services into a processing tree. These workflows can also be associated with publications and executed by users. The VL also provides a secure environment where users can decide the access rights for each resource to ensure copyright and privacy restrictions are met.
authors: Department of Computer Science, University of York, Deramore Lane, York, YO10 5GH, UK. victoria.hodge@york.ac.uk.
authors: Victoria
authors: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2469-0224
authors: V
authors: Hodge
authors: Department of Computer Science, University of York, Deramore Lane, York, YO10 5GH, UK.
authors: Mark
authors: M
authors: Jessop
authors: Department of Computer Science, University of York, Deramore Lane, York, YO10 5GH, UK.
authors: Martyn
authors: M
authors: Fletcher
authors: Department of Computer Science, University of York, Deramore Lane, York, YO10 5GH, UK.
authors: Michael
authors: M
authors: Weeks
authors: Department of Computer Science, University of York, Deramore Lane, York, YO10 5GH, UK.
authors: Aaron
authors: A
authors: Turner
authors: Department of Computer Science, University of York, Deramore Lane, York, YO10 5GH, UK.
authors: Tom
authors: T
authors: Jackson
authors: Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
authors: Colin
authors: C
authors: Ingram
authors: Department of Computing Science and Mathematics, University of Stirling, Stirling, UK.
authors: Leslie
authors: L
authors: Smith
authors: Department of Computer Science, University of York, Deramore Lane, York, YO10 5GH, UK.
authors: Jim
authors: J
authors: Austin
mesh_terms: D000067917:Cloud Computing; D006801:Humans; D033181:Information Dissemination; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D020407:Internet; D009488:Neurosciences; D010506:Periodicals as Topic; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012984:Software
keywords: Collaboration; Execution platform; Interactive publication repository; Interactive publications; Reproducible neuroscience; Scientific workflows; Web portal