It is a nice scientificcy day on the internet!
The History of Medical Discovery Interactive Timeline is just lovely -
http://nejm200.nejm.org/timeline/Public Library of Science -
http://www.plos.org/, making science accessible
OpEd about having to pay to access publicly paid for science -
Research Bought, Then Paid For
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/11/opinion/research-bought-then-paid-for.html,
this is very much the same argument used for opendata.
Networked science - Cracking Open the Scientific Process -
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/17/science/open-science-challenges-journal-tradition-with-web-collaboration.html?ref=scienceOpen Astronomy - where math and statistics come from, astronomers -
http://www.galaxyzoo.org/and
Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science
http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9517.html, although, scientists did
this in the days before institutionalization of the practice of
science, and shared among the few savants in societies and letters.
It almost seems like there is a push toward the old ways. Interesting
how circular things can be.
--
Tracey P. Lauriault
613-234-2805
"Every epoch dreams the one that follows it's the dream form of the
future, not its reality" it is the "wish image of the collective".
Walter Benjamin, between 1927-1940,
(
http://www.columbia.edu/itc/architecture/ockman/pdfs/dossier_4/buck-morss.pdf)
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