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List of bookmarks gathered for the RCS Open Science project.
Updated on May 26, 11
Created on Apr 20, 11
Category: Science
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"Sir Paul Nurse says climate scientists are being targeted by campaigns of requests designed to slow down their research"
"Discovery, the metadata ecology for UK education and research, invites stakeholders to join us in adopting a set of principles to enhance the impact of our knowledge resources for the furtherance of scholarship and innovation."
"SPIRES (Supporting People who Investigate Research Environments and Spaces) is an EPSRC Digital Economy project that aims to bring together currently disparate groups interested in the design of effective research spaces and environments in order to create a new research community."
Not quite Citizen Science as defined by GalaxyZoo and others, but definitely about public engagement in science.
Links to Mat Todd's amazing open science project collaboratively researching cure for schistosomiasis.
Includes Citizen Science links
Citizen science project at National History Museum.
Open University citizen science initiative about observing nature in people's back yards.
Includes GalaxyZoo - bunch of citizen science projects on astrophysics.
Definition of open science:
"# Transparency in experimental methodology, observation, and collection of data.
# Public availability and reusability of scientific data.
# Public accessibility and transparency of scientific communication.
# Using web-based tools to facilitate scientific collaboration."
"The OpenScience project is dedicated to writing and releasing free and Open Source scientific software. We are a group of scientists, mathematicians and engineers who want to encourage a collaborative environment in which science can be pursued by anyone who is inspired to discover something new about the natural world."
JISC report.
36 items | 14 visits
List of bookmarks gathered for the RCS Open Science project.
Updated on May 26, 11
Created on Apr 20, 11
Category: Science
URL: