[sc-announce] Boston Globe on the open science "insurgency" -- Science Commons blog
Donna Wentworth
dwentworth at creativecommons.org
Thu Aug 21 12:13:44 EDT 2008
Boston Globe on the open science "insurgency"
August 21st, 2008<http://sciencecommons.org/weblog/archives/2008/08/21/boston-globe-on-the-open-science-insurgency/>by
dwentworth
The *Boston Globe* today profiles three local organizations that leverage
the Web to accelerate scientific research and discovery: OpenWetWare
(OWW<http://openwetware.org/wiki/Main_Page>),
the Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE <http://www.jove.com/>) and
Science Commons. The article, *Out in the open: some scientists sharing
results*<http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2008/08/21/out_in_the_open_some_scientists_sharing_results/>,
tells the story of Barry Canton<http://openwetware.org/wiki/User:Barry_Canton>,
a young researcher here at MIT who has joined the "peaceful insurgency" in
scientific research by publishing
preprint<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preprint>research and raw data,
a practice often called open
notebook science<http://drexel-coas-elearning.blogspot.com/2006/09/open-notebook-science.html>
.
The article also touches briefly on the broader
spectrum<http://sciencecommons.org/weblog/archives/2008/04/16/are-you-part-of-open-science/>of
endeavors in open science, including the work we do to help realize
the
vision of fully automated, permission-free access to the available research,
data and materials.
If you've read the *Globe* piece and want to learn more about what Science
Commons does, here's a quick tour of our current projects. We focus on:
- Scholar's Copyright and Open Access
Data<http://www.sciencecommons.org/projects/publishing/>— making
scientific research "re-useful" by providing free tools for opening
and marking research and data for reuse
- Biological Materials Transfer Agreement
Project<http://www.sciencecommons.org/projects/licensing/>—
facilitating "one-click" access to research materials by streamlining
and
automating the materials-transfer process, so scientists can more easily
replicate, verify and extend research
- The NeuroCommons <http://www.sciencecommons.org/projects/data/> —
integrating fragmented information sources in the field of neuroscience, in
our "proof of concept" project to help researchers to find, analyze and use
research, data and materials from disparate sources
- The Health
Commons<http://www.sciencecommons.org/projects/healthcommons/>—
building the legal framework for a permission-free marketplace of drug
discovery data, materials and services, to make it easier for anyone to pull
together the resources for accelerating disease research
If you have any questions, please let us
know<%20science at creativecommons.org>— we'd like to hear from you. And
if you work in scientific research and
want to collaborate with us to lift legal and technical barriers to
research, you can click here to learn about your
options<http://sciencecommons.org/about/how-can-science-commons-help-me/>
.
Donna Wentworth
Communications Specialist
Science Commons
http://sciencecommons.org
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