Cracking the Vault: A Look Inside the Open Science Movement | JOUR90008

abernard102@gmail.com 2014-08-04

Summary:

"We tend to think of science as magic. It diagnoses and cures the world of its ills and provides both the building blocks and the blueprint for such incredible feats as the eradication of polio, the rise of the Internet and space travel. But magic is incalculable. It’s immaterial, irrational. Science, by contrast, is precise, articulate, considered and based entirely upon evidence and verifiability. Yet much of the field’s output sits locked away behind expensive paywalls and research institution intranets. Scientists, who seek to discover and release the secrets of the universe, from the tiniest atom through every organism and all the way up to the great cosmos, tend to be ironically closed-off and distant from both the public eye and each other. No longer will this be the case, however, if the growing open-science movement gets its way. Scientists all around the world are breaking free from the shackles of the old system in pursuit of something better. They dream of a world of openness, where every paper, every draft, every tweak to an experimental algorithm can be checked, explored and reproduced by others ..."

Link:

http://jour90008.wordpress.com/2014/08/04/inside-open-science-movement/

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.new oa.comment oa.data oa.open_science

Date tagged:

08/04/2014, 14:04

Date published:

08/04/2014, 10:04