This document discusses open research methodologies and initiatives. It defines open science as research that is verifiable, repeatable, extensible, and accessible. Open science involves making intellectual work and processes publicly visible through open access journals, machine readable formats, open peer review, and permissive licensing of content and data. The challenges of open science include issues around ideas being stolen, being wrong, and lack of specialization. The document advocates keeping a research blog, posting data online, and using open access sources to advance open science goals of knowledge sharing and reusability.

1. Research Methodologies :: Open Research Jessy Kate Cowan-Sharp University of Maryland

2. Research...

3. Research today <--> The World is Changing

4. Science? { Verifiable, Repeatable, Extensible, Accessible }

5. &quot;The Open Scholar is someone who makes their intellectual projects and processes digitally visible ... who invites and encourages ongoing [dialog about] their work and secondary uses...&quot; http://www.academicevolution.com/2009/08/the-open-scholar.html Open Science == Science

6. In Practice? Product Open Access Journals Machine readable formats Open Peer Review Licenses Process Collaboration Data Licenses * (There’s tons out there on Open Educational Resources, OpenCourseWare… won't be going into that here.)

7. Open Access Journals Openly accessible regardless of affiliation or financial means Publication models: pay-to-publish || no fee Access models: print || digital

8. Public Library of Science (PLoS) plos.org Open Research Computation ...for computational researchers openresearchcomputation.com Nature Communications ...open access option (fee-based) http://www.nature.com/ncomms/open_access Theory of Computing ( Professor Srinivasan ) theoryofcomputing.org Arxive.org (Pr)e-prints Directory of Open Access Journals doaj.org Open Access Peer Reviewed Journals ... and many more

9. Licensing - Content

10. Licensing - Data Licensing - Author Rights http://scholars.sciencecommons.org Modifies the publisher’s agreement Allows you to keep key rights to your articles Creative Commons Interactive Form - fill out and print opendatacommons.org Guides and Licenses

11. Process :: Open Notebook Science http://onschallenge.wikispaces.com/

12. Process :: Blogs

13. Process :: Microform ats http://jessykate.posterous.com/open-science-microformats-initial-thoughts

15. References Conversations Data

16. Process :: Code

17. Clutter versus transparency Getting “scooped” - What if someone steals my idea? Being wrong Being special “They won’t understand” Challenges

18. Hippocratic Oath for scientists? Fair trade research? Databases of theories (correct and falsified) Databases of failed experiments, negative results. More fine-grained licensing Queryable atomic results Innovating science itself - by exposing the process we make it more &quot;hackable.&quot; Looking to the Future...

19. Keep a research blog Make it CC Post your data online (with good documentation) Put your code on github (or some other public place) Use open access journals and source materials for courses. Things We Can Do

20. Some Philosophy Tools are always changing, but.. As Scientists we aim to: Advance the state of society’s knowledge and understanding Do good and help humanity. How can our research reach or benefit the most people? How can we ensure that it is built upon and used to inform future work? How can we ensure our work is maximally re-useable, re-mixable?

21. :: Sharing process :: Sharing results :: Optimizing for re-usability and re- mix ability Summary

22. Initiatives - Get Involved Beyond the Impact Factor Science Hack Day Open Science Summit Open Knowledge Foundation Open Science mailing list #openscience