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
“ ...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,

10. plannning,

11. protocols,

12. equipment,

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

14. and conclusions.

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

16. repeatability
transparency
provenance
communication

17. Why do open notebook
science?

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

19. are there drawbacks?

20. can you still publish in a journal?
-YES!
will my notebook be around when I’m dead?
-perhaps...
how many people are doing this?
-small but expanding community
would anyone even read my notebook
and comment in it?
-at first no, but over time
contributions will come

21. How do we take open
notebook science
to the next level?

22. require open access for funding
teach students the benefits of ons
show professors that going open
is not a sacrifice
reu/igert training specifically for
open science - proposal pending!
find and propogate ons success
stories

23. The End
busting science open
iheartanthony, do you?