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April 8, 2010

Embracing Open Science

Filed under: Open Notebook Science,web of science — Duncan Hull @ 10:37 pm
Tags: Anthony Salvagno, Brian Krueger, Carl Boettiger, Chelsea Wald, Declan Butler, Jean-Claude Bradley, Jonathan Eisen, open science, openwetware, Sarah Kendrew, Stevan Harnad, Steve Koch

There’s an interesting article [1] by Chelsea Wald in Science magazine published today, about Open Science including Open Source Code, Open Notebook Science, Open Data and Open Access Publishing.

It interviews some of the advocates and sceptics of a more open approach to doing Science, including:

Jonathan Eisen, University of California Davis
Steve Koch, University of New Mexico
Anthony Salvagno, University of New Mexico
Sarah Kendrew, Leiden Observatory, The Netherlands
Jean-Claude Bradley, Drexel University
Carl Boettiger, University of California Davis
Brian Krueger, University of Iowa

It’s well worth a read, despite being a bit US-centric, and looks like it’s freely available via Open Access Publishing [2] too.

[Update: There is some follow-up commentary on the original article here and here]

References

Chelsea Wald (2010). Scientists Embrace Openness Science (2010-04-09) DOI: 10.1126/science.caredit.a1000036
Declan Butler (2010). US seeks to make science free for all Nature, 464 (7290), 822-823 DOI: 10.1038/464822a

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June 2, 2009

Blogging For Profit: Costs and Benefits

Filed under: conferences,funding — Duncan Hull @ 7:40 am
Tags: AdSense, blogger, London, Mendeley, Nature Network, Nature Publishing Group, openwetware, sciblog, soloconf, soloconf_09, wordpress

The organisers of the Science Online London 2009 conference are asking people to propose their own session ideas (see some examples here), so here is proposal:

Title: Blogging For Profit: Costs and Benefits

What are the costs and benefits of blogging and how can you make sure the latter justifies the former?

This (proposed) session will look at two kinds of profit, and the costs associated with each.

Research profit (in science and academia), building digital reputations on the Web. Can blogging help your next grant proposal for research funding and if so, how? How can blogging be used to increase the visibility and impact of published research via the likes of ResearchBlogging.org, blogs.nature.com and other aggregators?

Financial profit (in business), making blogging pay the bills. What business models (and infrastructure) exist to support blogging? Including, but not limited to: Nature Network, ScienceBlogs, Google AdSense, “20% time“, “free” tools (WordPress, Blogger, OpenWetWare etc). Going solo vs. joining a club – which business models and tools are right for you?

This could be followed by a general discussion on these benefits. When do they justify their costs (and risks) and make for profitable blogging?

If this is a successful proposal, I’ll need some help. Any offers? If you are interested in joining in the fun, details are at scienceonlinelondon.org

[CC-licensed Business Graph picture by nDevilTV]

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April 4, 2008

myScience: “social software” for scientists

Filed under: web of science — Duncan Hull @ 9:03 am
Tags: arxiv, biomedexperts, Carole Goble, citeulike, connotea, e-science, endnote, Epernicus, facebook, flickr, friendfeed, labroots, mashup, me-Science, Mendeley, myexperiment, myScience, mySpace, openwetware, refworks, slideshare, Tara Brabazon, Web 2.0

With apologies to Jonathan Swift:

“Great sites have little sites upon their back to bite ’em
And little sites have lesser sites, and so ad infinitum…”

So what happened was, Carole Goble asked on the myExperiment mailing list, “is there a list of scientist social networking sites”? Here is first attempt at such a list (not comprehensive), you’ll have to decide for yourself which are the great, greater, little and lesser sites.
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