The Need For Open Science | Abstraction Book

abernard102@gmail.com 2013-02-08

Summary:

Over some years now scientists and science-enthusiasts across the globe have been trying to open up the way science is done. Movements like the ‘Budapest Open Access Initiative‘ or the ‘BOAI‘ have been more than successful in this. Scientists all over the world boycotted a few journals, that were against Open Access, and many of the journals now have accepted Open Access of research as a necessity. The Public Library of Science publishes the PLOS journals that are very much Open Access. However, a great deal is to be done yet to make the publication process in sciences democratized. What ails the world of science today the most is the prevalence of the evil of an artificially projected intellectual aristocracy... A rapid and effective democratization is the need of the hour. What we need today is not any strangulation of free thinking but an effective process, where all voices are registered ... Now, this is easier said than done. However, the recent years have shown us a few ways in the right direction. Projects like Mendeley and Figshare are a few that lets scientists share their work without any bar. ‘figshare allows researchers to publish all of their research outputs in seconds in an easily citable, sharable and discoverable manner. All file formats can be published, including videos and datasets that are often demoted to the supplemental materials section in current publishing models. By opening up the peer review process, researchers can easily publish null results, avoiding the file drawer effect and helping to make scientific research more efficient. figshare usescreative commons licensing to allow frictionless sharing of research data whilst allowing users to maintain their ownership..."

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oa.new oa.comment oa.advocacy oa.plos oa.open_science oa.peer_review oa.figshare oa.boai oa.mendeley

Date tagged:

02/08/2013, 13:21

Date published:

02/08/2013, 08:21