Transcript Peer Review in the Google Age

Open Notebook Science
And the Library
British Columbia Library Association
Open Access Conference
Jean-Claude Bradley
E-Learning Coordinator
College of Arts and Sciences
Drexel University
April 19, 2007
Open and Closed Science
Traditional
Lab Notebook
(unpublished)
Traditional
Journal
Article
Open Access
Journal Article
Open Notebook
Science (full
transparency)
RESEARCH
OPEN
CLOSED
TEACHING
Traditional
Paper
Textbook
F2F lectures
Lectures
Notes
public
Assigned
problems
public
Archived
Lectures
Public and
free online
textbooks
Agenda
This session will cover the dissemination of
primary scientific information via blogs, wikis
and other non-traditional vehicles
1. Types of information
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raw experimental data (Open Notebook Science)
analyzed data
hypotheses
“failed” experiments
generalized protocols
traditional article format
2. Issues
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Intellectual Property
Referencing and claims to priority
Academic Validation
Peer Review – mandatory and elective
3. Opportunities
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Increasing productivity in terms of universally
usable knowledge units
Making explicit the nature and quantity of work
in collaborations
Using semantically rich formats and automation
at zero publication cost – is this the way to the
technological singularity?
Where is Science headed?
WE ARE HERE
The Robot Scientist
How will this happen?
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Self-organizing reduntant processes
Agents can participate with zero or nearzero cost (free hosted services)
Fully Open Access (Read and Write)
Publication of all aspects of the scientific
process: Open Source Science / Open
Notebook Science
How can machines know what is
important?
Ask the humans
UsefulChem Blog
What chemists think is important in
2005
Find-A-Drug
Diketopiperazine Library
First iteration: Solid
Support Synthesis
Evolves to: on pot Ugi
reaction/cyclization
The Molecules Blog
The Experiments Blog
Comments from peers
The UsefulChem Wiki
Telling the story of the failures
Experiments moved to wiki
Experiment History
Experiment Edits
Third Party Time-Stamp on
Experiment Versions
Monitoring experimental progress
How are people finding our
experiments?
Molecules found by InChI
Automation in UsefulChem
CMLRSS feed on Bioclipse
Open science connectivity
More info
on open
source
science
here
http://usefulchem.wikispaces.com
The blog as an integrative tool
usefulchem.blogspot.com
The wiki as the laboratory
notebook
usefulchem.wikispaces.com/Exp049
Graphical Mining of Data with
JSpecView
usefulchem.wikispaces.com/Exp049 (2 min)
Raw Experimental Data
neurodatabase.org
Selected Experiments (some
failed)
Orgprepdaily.wordpress.com
Vendor Reliability
Orgprepdaily.wordpress.com
Generalized Protocols
Openwetware.org
Lab Notebook for intra-group
communication
Openwetware.org
Discussing Hypotheses
RRResearch.blogspot.com
Writing Code for the Automation
Component
Also – Rich Apodaca, Christoph
Steinbeck, Peter Murray-Rust