Scientists open up lab notebooks with Figshare

abernard102@gmail.com 2013-09-17

Summary:

Use the link to access the interview introduced as follows: "A new free-to-access 'swap-shop', where scientists deposit and exchange data could reduce the cost of research and deliver a raft of new discoveries. The architects of such a service, say it could bring about new advances faster in all fields of science, medicine and engineering by bringing together results from different sources. This would allow data from multiple experiments to be analysed by the world's most powerful computers, to uncover previously unseen trends. Users would also be encouraged to upload the outcome of many basic experiments, doing away with the need for students and early career scientists to unnecessarily repeat them. Scientists at Imperial College London and Saarland University in Germany have been the first to simultaneously publish the results of new research in the database, called Figshare, and a traditional journal, Nature Chemistry. Henry Rzepa is Professor of Computational Chemistry at Imperial and one of the university scientists pioneering the figshare service ..."

Link:

http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcollege/newssummary/news_13-9-2013-19-9-5?newsid=129507

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Tags:

oa.new oa.data oa.mandates oa.open_science oa.figshare oa.funders oa.reproducibility oa.compliance oa.imperial_college_london oa.saarland.u oa.interviews oa.policies oa.people

Date tagged:

09/17/2013, 07:51

Date published:

09/17/2013, 03:50