Jean-Claude Bradley presents on "Peer Review and Science2.0: blogs, wikis and social networking sites" as a guest lecturer for the “Peer Review Culture in Scholarly Publication and Grantmaking” course at Drexel University. The main thrust of the presentation is that peer review alone is not capable of coping with the increasing flood of scientific information being generated and shared. Arguments are made to show that providing sufficient proof for scientific findings does scale and weakens the tragedy of the trusted source cascade.
1. Peer Review and Science2.0: blogs, wikis and social networking sites Jean-Claude Bradley March 15, 2010 Guest Lecture for “Peer Review Culture in Scholarly Publication and Grantmaking ” course at Drexel University Associate Professor of Chemistry Drexel University
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3. What Peer Review does not do Verify the analysis of all the raw data supporting an article.
4. Even if peer-reviewing tried to take on the responsibility of verifying all the raw data, there are not enough resources to cope.
5. TRUST PROOF A solution that scales: Open Notebook Science
6. How bad is our current system? Try to find the solubility EGCG?
20. There are NO FACTS, only measurements embedded within assumptions Open Notebook Science maintains the integrity of data provenance by making assumptions explicit
63. Archiving Open Notebook Science Projects What is the role of the librarians, researchers and other parties? What are options for citing?
64. Librarians and Science 2.0 "The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that was founded to build an Internet library, with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format." The internet Archive is not practical for practitioners of Open Notebook Science or Science 2.0
74. Lulu.com - ISBN Google Spreadsheets Google Documents Web Services ChemSpider & Indiana Real Time Linear Regression, Unit Conversions, Style Sheet, etc Data Book
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77. Bradley, Jean-Claude; Lang Andrew. Solubilities Summary Sheet. Open Notebook Science Challenge. 2009-12-11. URL:http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=plwwufp30hfq0udnEmRD1aQ&output=xls. Accessed: 2009-12-11. (Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/5lx5ry3BV )
80. 1) Accept that reporting science in real time is not always pretty. Do your best to avoid and correct mistakes as soon as possible but mistakes and ambiguous results will happen on the way to completing any scientific project. Just be honest about your level of certainty when discussing preliminary results. 2) Provide as much raw data as is reasonable and frame it in such a way that other researchers can understand what you have done and follow your conclusions based on your data without having to ask you questions. 3) Don't wait for the perfect technological solutions before starting to share. General purpose wikis can serve as an excellent starting point for an Open Lab Notebook. 4) Don't wait for the perfect data structuring scheme before starting to share. First share for human readability - you can always restructure the data later for machine readability. Open Notebook Science Tips - I
81. 5) Periodically write summaries of your research progress in the form of milestones or significant challenges in a format that non-specialists can understand. A blog is a good platform for this. If you link to specific lab notebook pages from your summaries, experts can always click through to dig deeper. 6) Create snapshot archives of your notebooks and supporting raw data files. You can use these as backups and as a convenient way to cite a particular version of your entire research project. 7) Cite specific lab notebook pages and archives when publishing in peer-reviewed journals. Open Notebook Science Tips - II