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Thursday, September 18, 2008

Interview on open notebook science

Katherine Sanderson, Data on display, Nature, September 15, 2008. (Thanks to Ricardo Vidal.)
Risking being scooped and having patents refused, some scientists are posting their data online as they produce them. Organic chemist Jean-Claude Bradley of Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and biochemist Cameron Neylon of the University of Southampton, UK, describe this 'open notebook' approach. ...
Update. See also Cameron Neylon's comments on the article, clarifying his statements.