This document provides an introduction to open science and discusses why it is important, how it can be practiced, and some of the tools that enable it. Open science refers to making scientific research and data accessible to all levels of an informed public. It can help make research more effective and transparent by allowing ideas and findings to be more openly communicated and built upon through tools like blogs, wikis and collaborative documents. While technology has enabled many open science practices, challenges remain regarding standards, data portability, and cultural adoption.

1. A Beginner’s Guide to Open Science: Not for beginners but by beginners Cameron Neylon STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and School of Chemistry, University of Southampton

3. Open [ oh -p uh n ] (adjective) not closed… having no means of closing or barring… relatively free of obstruction… without restrictions as to who may participate… undecided; unsettled… (from Dictionary.com )

8. Can we use the resources we have in both knowledge and expertise more effectively to make people’s lives better? Image from WikiMedia Commons

9. Funding bodies telling us to Finding your own data Access and communication Pragmatic Reasons

11. Idea Research area Get funding Record work Process data Publish What am I thinking? What am I reading? What am I doing? What does it mean? What have I done? How do I justify it?

12. Idea Research area Get funding Record work Process data Publish Decide to go out on Saturday Where is the best place to go? Email parents for more cash Photos, video, Twitter Blog, YouTube, Facebook Discuss and tag photos and video What am I thinking? What am I reading? What am I doing? What does it mean? What have I done? How do I justify it?

13. Blogs Wikis Connotea, Citeulike, Zotero GoogleDocs, ThinkFree Idea Research area Get funding Record work Process data Publish What am I thinking? What am I reading? What am I doing? What does it mean? What have I done? How do I justify it?

14. http:// www.zoology.ubc.ca/~redfieldindex.html Idea Research area Get funding Record work Process data Publish What am I thinking? What does the data mean?

15. Idea Research area Get funding Record work Process data Publish What am I reading?

16. http:// openwetware.org/wiki/Nxsib:community/papers Idea Research area Get funding Record work Process data Publish What am I reading?

17. http:// usefulchem.wikispaces.com Idea Research area Get funding Record work Process data Publish What am I doing?

18. http:// chemtools.chem.soton.ac.uk/projects/blogs/blogs.php/blog_id/10 Idea Research area Get funding Record work Process data Publish What am I doing?

20. Blogs Wikis Connotea, Citeulike, Zotero GoogleDocs, ThinkFree      Idea Research area Get funding Record work Process data Publish

21. Blogs Wikis Connotea, Citeulike, Zotero GoogleDocs, ThinkFree       Idea Research area Get funding Record work Process data Publish

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40. The potential is there to do better and more efficient research The tools need more work but the culture needs more work again Prospects for Open Science?

41. Development Jeremy Frey, Andrew Milsted, Steve Wilson, Jenny Hale, Wendy Smith Ideas Jean-Claude Bradley, Jeremiah Faith, Michael Barton, Deepak Singh, Bill Hooker, Pedro Beltrao, Shirley Wu, Ricardo Vidal, Mat Todd, Antony Williams, Peter Murray-Rust… ‘The Open Science Collective’ Acknowledgements

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