A Four Part Series on Open Notebook Science (Part 3) › Scientific and Medical Libraries

"The second article in this series examined laboratory notebooks and the law, particularly what some open access advocates might call a "missed opportunity" in 2013 by the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) to mandate open access to laboratory notebooks along with articles and their associated data sets that result from federally-funded (that is to say, taxpayer-funded) research. In this, the third of four articles in the series, I conduct an infrastructure model debate with Associate Professor of Chemistry and E-Learning Coordinator for the College of Arts and Sciences at Drexel University, Dr. Jean-Claude Bradley, looking at different models for managing open notebook science, and ask the question, 'Should participation in open notebook science be voluntary or mandated?' ..."