Presented on 2/15/13 for Student Research Day at UNM. Scientific information is published in peer reviewed journals as a complete account. Unfortunately there is nothing complete about the process. Frequently intermediate and supplementary experimental data is excluded, methods are not nearly detailed enough, and results are manipulated for appearance. Open notebook science aims to be a complete account of the scientific process: from ideas and planning, to experimental setup and protocol design, all the way through data interpretation and commentary. Here I talk about tools to create and support an open notebook, effective use of the medium, and how social interaction creates a community using examples from my own open notebook for research.

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
“ ...thepractice of making
the entire primary record
of a research project
publicly available online
as it is recorded. ”
-via Wikipedia

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

10. repeatability
transparency
provenance
communication

11. Why do open notebook
science?

12. lots of
publications
measurable
impact
ease of writing
open notebook
science
scientific outreach
real-time
peer review
and
collaboration
be a better scientist

13. are there drawbacks?

14. can you still publish in a journal?
-YES!
can you be scooped?
-sure, but it is actually easier to
protect open data
do you have to be fully open?
-NO! start small or dive in!

15. And now a Demonstration...
busting science open
iheartanthony, do you?