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Course: How to use an online open access notebook

ScienceOnline open access NoteBook

Scifund 201 – Open Notebook Science: Enhance your research through open access note taking.

Cost: FREE. However, we aren’t just giving this course away. Course participants must pledge to share what they have learned with their colleagues.

When: June 17 – 30, 2013 (two weeks)

Where: The Internet! This course will be a highly interactive community effort and will take place largely through Google+ and WordPress blogs. Who: Active research scientists in any country in any discipline at any level (from graduate student to emeritus professor to government scientist to NGO scientist). This course is intended to introduce open access into the research environment. What course participants will gain from the course:

  • An understanding of open philosophy and how it pertains to research.

  • Experience publishing your notes openly, which encourages responsible lab behavior, develops writing and communication skills, and can supplement your outreach efforts.

  • Benefits of electronic note taking such as search, easy organization, and real-time access for collaborators and lab mates (as well as yourself).

Time that course participants should expect to spend on course: The course is broken down into 4 modules (roughly one every three days) and will require 1-2 hours to complete each module. Expect 3-4 hours of time dedicated to the course each week. Deadline for completing course application: June 12. To keep the class size reasonable, course participants will need to fill out a brief application form. Decisions on applications will be given by June 14. Requirements for course participants. Course participants must:

  1. be fluent in written and spoken English

  2. have access to a computer with a webcam

  3. have access to the Internet (with speeds capable of video chatting)

  4. want to have fun and willing to share their research with the world.

Course instructors:

  • Anthony Salvagno, Biophysicist, University of New Mexico, open notebook curator

  • Jai Ranganathan, Conservation Biologist, University of California, Santa Barbara. Co-founder, SciFund Challenge.