Nice summary of yesterday’s talk ‘Open Science - Chancen und Herausforderungen der digitalen Wissenschaft’.
Listen also to the audio recording (in German).
See also this article on yesterday’s talk at HU Berlin.
Harlan Krumholz comments on GSKs decision to share data.
Forbes.
Alberto Pepe, Berkman Center Fellow, speaks about unlocking the sources of scientific research by authoring papers on the web. The lecture will be webcast live (9 October) and archived on the Berkman Center site.
Ulrich Herb writes on the current situation of Open Science projects - ensuing from a definition of Open Science that exceeds the Open access definition and allows for transparency and external influence throughout the whole research process.
(In German)
heise online
Here is the first episode of the “Oxford University Open Science Podcast”.
From the description:
In this series of podcasts we consider the impact of opening up science: allowing both the research community and the public to freely access the results of scientific work. Individuals can be fully informed about medical or environmental research, students worldwide can get access to the latest work, and software agents can roam the vast scientific knowledge base seeking patterns and correlations that no human has observed. Ultimately, it may profoundly change the way science is done.
Here is a link to:
Whyte, A., Pryor, G. (2011). Open Science in Practice: Researcher Perspectives and Participation. The International Journal of Digital Curation, Vol. 6(1): 199–213.
From the abstract:
We report on an exploratory study consisting of brief case studies in selected disciplines, examining what motivates researchers to work (or want to work) in an open manner with regard to their data, results and protocols, and whether advantages are delivered by working in this way. We review the policy background to open science, and literature on the benefits attributed to open data, considering how these relate to curation and to questions of who participates in science.
Here is a piece by Burcu Dogan on the general idea of open science.
Open science is opening the way we make science. It stands for transparency and public accessibility of scientific data, collaboration, methods and results. On the other hand, it supports the existence of public contribution to the current state of science, and giving it back to the public domain.
Here is a Mendeley link to:
Kraker, P., Leony, D., Reinhardt, W., Beham, G. (2011). The Case for an Open Science in Technology Enhanced Learning. International Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning, Vol. 6 (3), 643–654.
Abstract:
In this paper, we make the case for an Open Science in Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL). Open Science means opening up the research process by making all of its outcomes, and the way in which these outcomes were achieved, publicly available on the World Wide Web. In our vision, the adoption of Open Science instruments provides a set of solid and sustainable ways to connect the disjoint communities in TEL. Furthermore, we envision that researchers in TEL would be able to reproduce the results from any paper using the instruments of Open Science. Therefore, we introduce the concept of Open Methodology, which stands for sharing the methodological details of the evaluation provided, and the tools used for data collection and analysis. We discuss the potential benefits, but also the issues of an Open Science, and conclude with a set of recommendations for implementing Open Science in TEL.
