An Experiment in Open Science – My fermentation journal | Food Matters, Scientific American Blog Network

abernard102@gmail.com 2015-01-15

Summary:

"I’m a strong believer in the notion that science, especially academic science that is performed with public money, should be openly accessible to everyone. I’m sort of on the radical fringe of this belief, as I think that not only published results, but lab notebooks, and in-process stuff as well should be shared.  Alas, since science is also collaborative, I can’t actually make this choice on my own. There are structural impediments to openness – namely, since publications are the only currency that matters, leaked data/ideas could be grabbed by someone else. If they publish, there’s no mechanism to give me credit for what I produced. In my fantasy future, scientific publications could link to blog posts/personal web pages as citations (so my posts could have an 'impact factor'), but this is not the world we live in ..."

Link:

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/food-matters/2015/01/13/an-experiment-in-open-science-my-fermentation-journal/

From feeds:

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

Tags:

oa.new oa.comment oa.advocacy oa.data oa.open_science oa.open_notebooks oa.prestige oa.impact

Date tagged:

01/15/2015, 09:51

Date published:

01/15/2015, 04:50