The Insight Journal is an electronic scientific journal

Scientific journal

In academic publishing, a scientific journal is a periodical publication intended to further the progress of science, usually by reporting new research. There are thousands of scientific journals in publication, and many more have been published at various points in the past...

 that covers the reproducibility of technical reports in the areas of image analysis and visualization. The journal provides mechanisms for sharing open source

Open source

The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...

 software, open data

Open Data

Open data is the idea that certain data should be freely available to everyone to use and republish as they wish, without restrictions from copyright, patents or other mechanisms of control. The goals of the open data movement are similar to those of other "Open" movements such as open source, open...

, and full description of parameters needed to reproduce the experiences reported in the submitted papers.

Journal features

The Insight Journal is based on the concept of open science and provides full access to scientific material under a license allowing readers to create derivative works, the Creative Commons

Creative Commons

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 "by-attribution" license.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ the journal uses open peer review

Open peer review

Open peer review describes a scientific literature concept and process, central to which is the various transparency and disclosure of the identities of those reviewing scientific publications...

 and allows any reader to volunteer as reviewer, and requiring reviewers to make their reviews public. Readers can rate reviewers in a similar way that online retailers such as Amazon.com

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 self-regulate their evaluations. The journal is inspired by the concept of Reproducibility

Reproducibility

Reproducibility is the ability of an experiment or study to be accurately reproduced, or replicated, by someone else working independently...

 and by the Reproducible Research initiative championed by Jon Claerbout.