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Scientific Utopia: I. Opening Scientific Communication
Brian A. Nosek & Yoav Bar-Anan

COMMENTARIES
Toward Open Behavioral Science
Karen E. Adolph et al.

Does Open Scientific Communication Increase the Quality of Knowledge?
Jens B. Asendorpf

A Librarian's Defense of the Practicable Over the Perfect in Scholarly Communication
Jill Cirasella

Missteps on the Road to Scientific Utopia
Joel Cooper

Improving Science by Improving Scientific Communication: The View From the APA Publications and Communications Board
Jennifer Crocker

What Do We Really Want?
David Dunning

Seeking the Road to Utopia
Paul Fendley

Will We March to Utopia, or Be Dragged There? Past Failures and Future Hopes for Publishing Our Science
Roger Giner-Sorolla

Scientific Communication Is Down at the Moment, Please Check Again Later
John P. A. Ioannidis

Leveraging the Wisdom of Crowds in a Data-Rich Utopia
Ravi Iyer & Jesse Graham

A Dinosaur Comments on the Coming Apocalypse: Does Anybody Else See That Asteroid?
Laura A. King

Scientific Utopia or Scientific Dystopia?
Scott O. Lilienfeld

Modernizing Science
Benjamin W. Mooneyham et al.

Cheaper and Better: Why Scientific Advancement Demands the Move to Open Access Publishing
Don A. Moore & Elizabeth R. Tenney

Scientific Utopia: That Which Cannot Exist?
Alison Mudditt & Michael A. Hogg

Let's Publish Fewer Papers
Leif D. Nelson et al.

Let's Try and Fix the Current Publishing System Before Making Dramatic Changes
Richard E. Petty

The Future of Scientific Publication in Psychology: Utopias and Dystopias
Harry T. Reis

How Should We Manage Peer Review and Why?
Rebecca Saxe

Scientific Utopia … or Too Much Information?
Barbara A. Spellman

Beginning at Nosek and Bar-Anan's End: Let's Put Open Evaluation First
Tal Yarkoni

REPLY
Scientific Communication Is Changing and Scientists Should Lead the Way
Brian A. Nosek & Yoav Bar-Anan

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