Reinventing Discovery
{{Short description|Book on the benefits of applying the philosophy of open science to research.}}
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Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science is a book written by Michael Nielsen and released in October 2011. It argues for the benefits of applying the philosophy of open science to research.
Summary
The following is a list of major topics in the book's chapters.
- Reinventing Discovery
- Online Tools Make Us Smarter
- :Kasparov versus the World, The Wisdom of Crowds, various online collaborative projects
- Restructuring Expert Attention
- :InnoCentive, collective intelligence, Paul Seabright's economic theory, online chat
- Patterns of Online Collaboration
- :History of Linux, Open Architecture Network, Wikipedia, MathWorks' computer programming contest
- The Limits and the Potential of Collective Intelligence
- :communication in small groups, particularly as studied by Stasser and Titus; praxis of science; a discussion of communication among scientists
- All the World's Knowledge
- :Don R. Swanson and Literature-based discovery, predicting influenza with Google searches, Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Allen Institute for Brain Science, Ocean Observatories Initiative, Human Genome Project, Google Translate, [http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/feb/11/the-chess-master-and-the-computer/ playchess.com Tournaments]
- Democratizing Science
- :Galaxy Zoo, Foldit, citizen science, eBird, open access, arXiv, PLoS
- The Challenge of Doing Science in the Open
- :Complexity Zoo, academic publishing, Bayh–Dole Act
- The Open Science Imperative
- :Open science, academic journal publishing reform, SPIRES
:appendix - The problem solved by the Polymath Project
Reviews
Timo Hannay's review in Nature said that in this book Nielsen gives "the most compelling and comprehensive case so far for a new approach to science in the Internet age".{{Cite journal | last1 = Hannay | first1 = T. | title = A new kind of science? | journal = Nature Physics | volume = 7 | issue = 10 | pages = 742 | year = 2011 | doi = 10.1038/nphys2109|bibcode = 2011NatPh...7..742H | doi-access = free }}
The Financial Times review said that the book was "the most compelling manifesto yet for the transformative power of networked science".{{cite web |url= http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/c5f01366-fef3-11e0-9769-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1j00AdfTh |title=Reinventing Discovery |first=James |last=Wilsdon |publisher=Financial Times|date=28 October 2011 |accessdate=9 January 2012}}
References
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External links
- {{Official website|http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9517.html}}
- [http://citizensciencequarterly.com/2012/04/13/reinventing-discovery-michael-nielsen/ Interview in Citizen Science Quarterly]
Category:Books about the history of science