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Move Academic Science into the realm of Open-Source
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Shared knowledge is better and more valuabel knowledge. | |
We have the technology and programmers already got the methods of open-sourcing the development of code. I see no reason for science to not go the same way, especially the publicly funded acedemic science. There's already an academic movement of professors and other academic researchers to make more research open access, with the intention of removing paywalls and such for research already made. I like the idea and think the technology of today is open to take things even further. Why not go open-source all the way? Why wait with peer review until after the research is done? Why limit the peers to researches at the same university, why not let interested parties join in if they want -- no matter what their background is? We who use sites like GitHub already know how useful open-source feedback can be even before the project is finished. | |
If you are a researcher consider using a public github repository for your next project. Store your journal, research data and description of what's being done within the repo. That's all it takes for making research in an open-source manner. | |
And if you have any ideas of structuring a system of how to perform research in an open-source manner to give people an easy to follow "how-to" feel free to join the discussion or create and publicise your own such methods for others to use. I think this is the most logical and future path for research to go and it's probably time to start accelerating the process of getting there. | |
Best regards, Victor | |
=== My Original tweet thread === | |
10:49 AM · Nov 29, 2021·Twitter Web App | |
Peer review in all honour, but why can't more of science be developed in an open-source manner. It feels like a @github | |
#repo would be a perfect place for both producing and publishing scientific discoveries. | |
It could be helpful already in the research stage. | |
The Peer-review system is great, but the way it's practised it seems to not fully have adapted to the modern, well-connected world. I say it's time to summon the #OpenSource spirit in the #Science world | |
I went to the interwebs to see if I could find some agreement on this, and so, I did. From Berkley professor Randy Schekman, who wrote about #OpenAcess in science. A good start, but I think it ought to be beneficial to go all the way to also #OpenSoruce | |
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/scientific-research-shouldnt-sit-behind-a-paywall/ | |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=usDdBOGdEV0 |
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This is just a Gist of the idea, some more structure to this might be coming soon.