What can scholarly communication learn from open source? Publish early, publish often!

This is Open Access Week, and there will be a number of presentations centered around how journals can open access to peer-reviewed and published articles. However, much of the transformative power of Open Source software comes from the adage "release early, release often". Indeed, we expect a solid open source project not only to release a polished tar-ball of source code once the product is done, but to have an open development process, with every update available on github or sourceforge, an open bug database and mailing list, etc. What would a similar paradigm look like for academic research?

This presentation will introduce early efforts at opening up science, including open notebook science and research wikis, as well as a collection of tools developed by the speaker to enable integrated sharing of notes and references from the research process. I will also discuss some of the challenges with semantic data sharing, as well as the challenges with sharing a loosely-built framework with others.

Presentation as part of the FOSS colloquium at iSchool, University of Toronto, Oct 27 2011.

Tool: http://reganmian.net/wiki/researchr:start

Download slides: http://www.slideshare.net/houshuang/researchr-foss-symposium-fall-2011

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Education

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• bibdesk
• open access
• wiki
• open scholar
• researchr
• open access week