Open Notebook ScienceResearch in Real-Time

by anthony salvagnoresearch.iheartanthony.com

how is science traditionally

carried out?

closed & isolated

and the outcome...

ideas results

...is peer review publication

writingformattingacceptance

inaccessiblelimited

peer review is designed to weed outmisinformation...

...but now there are so many journalsscientists will eventually get published.

What is the alternative?

open science

open access

data methods

reinventingdiscovery

outreach

publicaccess

citizenscience

open notebook science

and that record includes...

...the practice of making the entire primary record of a research project publicly available online as it is recorded.

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project intro in notebook

project inception,

project plan on mindmeister

plannning,

protocols,

how to seal a sample

equipment,

equipment list with links to sources

data,

tobacco seed growth in heavy watervia google docs and figshare

and conclusions.

recap of trial 4 from tobacco seedgrowth experiment

what are the

Key aspects of

Open notebook science?

communication

provenance

repeatability

transparency

What’s in it For me?

real-timepeer review

andcollaboration

warm fuzzies(outreach)

lots ofpublications

open notebookscience

measurableimpact

What’s the catch?

can you still publish in a journal?

will my notebook be around when I’m dead?

how many people are doing this?

would anyone even read my notebookand comment in it?

right now the ons community is smalland diverse

so...

this makes it hard to understand how collaboration and peer review would work in this environment

Physics 308L Junior lab:

the ons case study

2012juniorlab.iheartanthony.com

12 students 2 groups(mon & wed)

electronics lab

the rules:

1

2

3

pick any notebook platform

must read and comment ineach others’ notebooks

“cheat” when able

results (still in progress):

benefitted from collaboration

prefer electronic notebook format

learned how to use collaborativetools for science

had to be encouraged to “cheat”found it useful

What’s next for open

notebook science?

the bottom up approach:

teach students the benefits of ons

convince professors that going open isn’t a sacrifice

find and propogate ons successstories

reu/igert training specifically foropen science

the top down approach:

help develop open science tools

fix archival issues

find the ideal open notebookplatform

require open access for funding

The End

busting science openiheartanthony, do you?