A presentation I gave to students at the New Mexico Graduate and Professional Student Conference. Open science is the future of science, and open notebook science is the future of how scientific information is accessed and propagated. Here I present examples from my notebook and from a case study of an open notebook community (Physics 308L Junior Lab).

1. Open Notebook Science
Research in Real-Time
by anthony salvagno
research.iheartanthony.com

2. how is science traditionally
carried out?

3. closed & isolated
ideas results
and the outcome...

4. ...is peer review publication
writing
formatting
acceptance
inaccessible
limited

5. peer review is designed to weed out
misinformation...
...but now there are so many journals
scientists will eventually get published.

6. What is the alternative?

7. open science
open access
outreach
data methods
public
access
reinventing
discovery citizen
science

8. open notebook science
“ ...the practice of making the entire
primary record of a research project
publicly available online as it is
recorded.
”
and that record includes...

9. project inception,
project intro in notebook

10. plannning,
project plan on mindmeister

11. protocols,
how to seal a sample

12. equipment,
equipment list with links to sources

13. data,
tobacco seed growth in heavy water
via google docs and figshare

14. and conclusions.
recap of trial 4 from tobacco seed
growth experiment

15. what are the
Key aspects of
Open notebook science?

16. repeatability
transparency
provenance
communication

17. What’s in it For me?

18. lots of
publications
measurable
impact
open notebook
science
real-time
peer review warm fuzzies
and (outreach)
collaboration

19. What’s the catch?

20. can you still publish in a journal?
will my notebook be around when I’m dead?
how many people are doing this?
would anyone even read my notebook
and comment in it?

21. right now the ons community is small
and diverse
this makes it hard to understand how
collaboration and peer review would
work in this environment
so...

22. Physics 308L Junior lab:
the ons case study
2012juniorlab.iheartanthony.com

23. 12 students 2 groups
(mon & wed)
electronics lab

24. the rules:
1
pick any notebook platform
2
must read and comment in
each others’ notebooks
3
“cheat” when able

25. results (still in progress):
prefer electronic notebook format
benefitted from collaboration
had to be encouraged to “cheat”
found it useful
learned how to use collaborative
tools for science

26. What’s next for open
notebook science?

27. the bottom up approach:
teach students the benefits of ons
convince professors that going
open isn’t a sacrifice
find and propogate ons success
stories
reu/igert training specifically for
open science

28. the top down approach:
help develop open science tools
fix archival issues
find the ideal open notebook
platform
require open access for funding

29. The End

30. busting science open
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