The open source science movement

Posted: November 24th, 2009 | Author: Stephen | Filed under: Open Source, Quick Post | 2 Comments »

oss science The ideals and ideas that make up the foundation to the open source software movement may be applicable to other fields. One such field is research science. Open source science means that research, data, results and ideas are all freely shared so that new breakthroughs can be made faster cheaper and more collaboratively in a global community. Walter Jessen, of the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital was interviewed by LinuxInsider about what open source science is and how it works.

With the controversy currently shaking the climate change research community, maybe open access to research isn’t such a bad idea.

Read the whole interview here.

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2 Comments on “The open source science movement”

1 University of Ottawa announces open acces policy | Open Ecosystems said at 1:55 pm on December 8th, 2009:
[...] have talked about the merits of open access before and I hope other Canadian schools soon follow suit. For the full press release from the University [...]
2 Open science – Panton principles for sharing scientific data | Open Ecosystems said at 10:32 am on February 22nd, 2010:
[...] in order for the scientific process to function effectively. I have covered open science before here. Check out Glyn’s whole post on open… [...]