Open Access Week 2012
Open Notebook Science: Transparency in Research
Jean-Claude Bradley
General Lecture
Date: October 23, 2012
Time: 2 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Location: Klaus Advanced Computing Building, 1116 Seminar Room
This event is FREE and open to the public. Space is limited, so arrive early.
“... there is a URL to a laboratory notebook that is freely available and indexed on common search engines. It does not necessarily have to look like a paper notebook but it is essential that all of the information available to the researchers to make their conclusions is equally available to the rest of the world.”
- Jean-Claude Bradley
ABSTRACT: This presentation will outline strategies for collecting, processing, and disseminating chemical information as Open Data. Bradley will discuss melting point and solubility datasets and models. In his talk, Bradley will show how Open Notebook Science can be used to maintain full provenance information between the original lab notebook pages and associated raw data up to the point of use. Specifically he will explain in detail the use of web services, allowing for data access and querying through a browser interface or Google Spreadsheets using Google App Scripts.
BIO: Jean-Claude Bradley is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at Drexel University. He leads the UsefulChem project, a synthetic organic chemistry initiative started in the summer of 2005 to make the scientific process as transparent as possible by publishing all research work in real time to a collection of public blogs, wikis and other web pages. Bradley coined the term ‘Open Notebook Science’ to distinguish this approach from other more restricted forms of Open Science. In 2008, he created the Open Notebook Science Solubility Challenge to crowd source the measurement of non-aqueous solubility. Sponsored by Submeta, Sigma-Aldrich, Nature and the Royal Society of Chemistry, the ONS Challenge has resulted in the publication of a book combining the results of 12 student award winners from the U.S. and the UK.
Bradley teaches undergraduate organic chemistry courses with most content freely available on public blogs, wikis, games, Second Life and audio and video podcasts. He has a Ph.D. in organic chemistry and has published articles and obtained patents in the areas of synthetic and mechanistic chemistry, gene therapy, nanotechnology and scientific knowledge management.
Open Access Services @ GT Library
Open access continues to be an important topic of discussion in academia, as funding agencies and institutes of higher learning are increasingly turning to open access (OA) – or public access – policies to facilitate the sharing of ideas and the advancement of science and research. Since April 7, 2008, researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) are required by law to deposit their final manuscripts, upon acceptance for publication in a peer-reviewed journal, in PubMed Central (PMC) no later than twelve months after publication.
SMARTech
Tech’s web-based repository, SMARTech, provides persistent access to Tech-produced digital materials such as articles, technical reports, research reports, conference papers, working papers, pre-prints, post-prints, data, audio, video, and theses and dissertations. The repository currently holds over 30,000 items and is the 7th largest IR in the U.S. and the 35th in the world. Items in SMARTech are indexed by Google, Google Scholar, and other search engines.
Open Access Week 2011
Doing Science in the Open
Michael Nielsen
A Conversation with GT Faculty, Sponsored by the Library and the School of Physics
Date: October 3, 2011
Time: 11:30 am – 1:00 pm
Location: Nanotechnology Building, rm. 118
General Lecture
Date: October 3, 2011
Time: 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Location: Nanotechnology Building, rm. 118
Register HERE! Registration is FREE and mandatory for the faculty lecture (space is limited!) and preferred but not required for the general lecture.
ABSTRACT: The internet is causing a radical change in how science is done. In this talk I'll describe how mass online collaborations are being used to prove mathematical theorems; how online markets are allowing scientific problems to be outsourced; and how online citizen science projects are enabling amateurs to make scientific discoveries. These and other projects show how we can use online tools to amplify our collective intelligence, and so extend our scientific problem-solving ability. This promise is only part of the story, however, for today there are many cultural barriers inhibiting scientists from using online tools to their full potential. I will discuss these cultural barriers, and how they can be overcome.
BIO: Michael Nielsen is an author and an advocate of open science. His book about open science, Reinventing Discovery, will be published by Princeton University Press in 2011. Prior to his book, Michael was an internationally known scientist who helped pioneer the field of quantum computation. He co-authored the standard text in the field, and wrote more than 50 scientific papers, including invited contributions to Nature and Scientific American. His work on quantum teleportation was recognized in Science Magazine's list of the Top Ten Breakthroughs of 1998. Michael was educated at the University of Queensland, and as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of New Mexico. He worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory, as the Richard Chace Tolman Prize Fellow at Caltech, was Foundation Professor of Quantum Information Science and a Federation Fellow at the University of Queensland, and a Senior Faculty Member at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. In 2008, he gave up his tenured position to work fulltime on open science.
