Reinventing Discovery_ The New Era of Networked Science - Michael Nielsen [126]
p 182 “publish [papers] or perish,” not “publish [data] or perish” is from [171].
Chapter 9. The Open Science Imperative
="0em" width="1em" align="justify">p 187: Tobias Osborne’s research blog on quantum computing is at http://tjoresearchnotes.wordpress.com/. The idea of open notebook science has been developed in detail by Jean-Claude Bradley [26] and Cameron Neylon [147]. See also Bradley’s blog (http://usefulchem.blogspot.com/) and Neylon’s blog (http://cameronneylon.net/).
p 187 open science “would require most scientists to simultaneously and completely change their behaviour: [164].
p 188: Details about the Swedish change from driving on the left to driving on the right may be found in [217] and [97]. The language in my account is inspired by a wonderful sentence of Stephen Pinker [170], who wrote, “A switch from driving on the left to driving on the right could not begin with a daring nonconformist or a grass-roots movement but would have to be imposed from the top down (which is what happened in Sweden at 5 am, Sunday, September 3, 1967).”
p 188: In fact, the Journal des Sçavans has a claim to being the world’s first scientific journal, as it began publication a couple of months before the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. However, the point is debatable, as the Journal des Sçavans mixed scientific and nonscientific content.
p 188: Mary Boas Hall’s comments about Oldenburg begging for information from the scientists of the day are given in [89] (page 159).
p 191: The policy situation for sharing of genetic data is rapidly evolving. For a broad overview of policy at the National Institutes of Health, including the policy on genome-wide association studies, see [143]. For the specific policy from the National Human Genome Research Institute in support of the Bermuda Agreement, see [96]. For the Wellcome Trust policy, see [236].
p 191: The UK Medical Research Council’s policy on open data is in [229].
p 191 a spokesperson said this announcement was merely “phase one” of an effort to ensure that all data be openly accessible: [140].
p 191: The OECD recommendations on open access to publicly funded research data are in [160].
p 191: The phrase “the republic of science” is from Michael Polanyi’s excellent essay [172] of the same title. Among other things, the essay describes the dangers of too much centralized control in science, exactly the sort of centralized control that grant agencies have today. (When Polanyi was writing, the grant agencies had far smaller budgets, anonsequently much less power.) I agree with Polanyi’s concerns—indeed, it’s tempting to write a follow-up essay on “The Oligarchy of Science”—but the point of the current discussion is, of course, to find best actions in the world we find ourselves in, not in some idealized world.
p 193: On property rights in ideas and the invisible hand in science, see [172,48]; an interesting general article on invisible hand explanations is [230]. I don’t know where the term “reputation economy” originates; it has been in wide use since the 1990s (and perhaps earlier), but the idea is much older.
p 194: SPIRES is at http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/. The physics preprint arXiv is, as previously noted, at http://arxiv.org.
p 195: On new ways of measuring science, see, for