Takuya Homma's List: Science2.0

• Because most blogs allow outsiders to comment on the individual posts, they have proved to be a good medium for brainstorming and discussions.
• UsefulChem

• Of course, for many members of Bracher’s primary audience—young scientists still struggling to get tenure—those discussions can look like a minefield. A fair number of the participants use pseudonyms out of fear that a comment might offend some professor’s sensibilities, hurting a student’s chances of getting a job later. Other potential participants never get involved because they feel that time spent with the online community is time not spent on cranking out that next publication. “The peer-reviewed paper is the cornerstone of jobs and promotion,” PLoS ONE’s Surridge says. “Scientists don’t blog because they get no credit” for that.

   

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• I didn't know that the science world is so slow to adopt itself to web2.0. But as we can see the examples of newspapers and publishing, they eventually accept and embrace the idea of web2.0. Sooner or later. The sooner, the better. - Takuya Homma on 2008-05-06

• Unlike the oft-defaced Wikipedia, the system will let users make changes only after they have registered and established that they belong to a legitimate research organization.
• getting scooped and losing the credi
• if someone actually did try to scoop you, it would be very easy to prove your priority—and to embarrass them. I think that’s really what is going to drive open science: the fear factor.
• If you wait for the journals, your work won’t appear for another six to nine months. But with open science, your claim to priority is out there right away.”
• researchers may sometimes have legitimate reasons to think twice about being so open. If work involves patients or other human subjects, for example, privacy is a concern. If a scientist is planning to publish in a journal that insists on copyrighting text and visuals, prepublishing online could pose a problem. And if work might lead to a patent, it is still not clear whether the patent office will accept a wiki posting as proof of priority. Until that is sorted out, he says, “the typical legal advice is: do not disclose your ideas before you file.”

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