Journal:Ten simple rules for cultivating open science and collaborative R&D
| Full article title | Ten simple rules for cultivating open science and collaborative R&D |
|---|---|
| Journal | PLOS Computational Biology |
| Author(s) | Masum, Hassan; Rao, Aarthi; Good, Benjamin M.; Todd, Matthew H.; Edwards, Aled M.; Chan, Leslie; Bunin, Barry A.; Su, Andrew I.; Thomas, Zakir; Bourne, Philip E. |
| Author affiliation(s) | Waterloo Institute for Complexity and Innovation, Results for Development Institute, Scripps Research Institute, University of Sydney, University of Toronto, Collaborative Drug Discovery, Scripps Research Institute, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, University of California San Diego |
| Primary contact | Email: hassan dot masum at utoronto dot ca |
| Year published | 2013 |
| Volume and issue | 9(9) |
| Page(s) | e1003244 |
| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003244 |
| ISSN | 1553-7358 |
| Distribution license | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International |
| Website | http://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003244 |
| Download | http://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003244&type=printable (PDF) |
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Introduction
How can we address the complexity and cost of applying science to societal challenges?
Open science and collaborative R&D may help.[1][2][3] Open science has been described as "a research accelerator."[4] Open science implies open access[5] but goes beyond it: "Imagine a connected online web of scientific knowledge that integrates and connects data, computer code, chains of scientific reasoning, descriptions of open problems, and beyond ... tightly integrated with a scientific social web that directs scientists' attention where it is most valuable, releasing enormous collaborative potential."[1]
Open science and collaborative approaches are often described as open-source, by analogy with open-source software such as the operating system Linux which powers Google and Amazon — collaboratively created software which is free to use and adapt, and popular for internet infrastructure and scientific research.[6][7] However, this use of "open-source" is unclear. Some people use "open-source" when a project's results are free to use, others when a project's process is highly collaborative.[4]
Funding
This article was made possible by support to HM and AR from a grant by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to the Results for Development Institute. The funders had no role in the preparation of the manuscript.
Competing interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Nielsen, M. (2011). Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science. Princeton University Press. pp. 272. ISBN 9780691148908.
- ↑ National Research Council (2011). Uhlir, P.F.. ed. Designing the Microbial Research Commons: Proceedings of an International Symposium. The National Academies Press. pp. 216. ISBN 9780309219792. https://www.nap.edu/catalog/13245/designing-the-microbial-research-commons-proceedings-of-an-international-symposium.
- ↑ Institute of Medicine; Olson, S.; Berger, A.C. (2011). Establishing Precompetitive Collaborations to Stimulate Genomics-Driven Product Development: Workshop Summary. The National Academies Press. pp. 74. ISBN 9780309161824. https://www.nap.edu/catalog/13015/establishing-precompetitive-collaborations-to-stimulate-genomics-driven-product-development-workshop.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Woelfle, M.; Olliaro, P.; Todd, M.H. (2011). "Open science is a research accelerator". Nature Chemistry 3 (10): 745-8. doi:10.1038/nchem.1149. PMID 21941234.
- ↑ "PLOS Collections: Open Access Collection". 2013. Archived from the original on 20 April 2013. http://web.archive.org/web/20130420203146/http://www.ploscollections.org/article/browseIssue.action?issue=info:doi/10.1371/issue.pcol.v01.i10. Retrieved 25 April 2013.
- ↑ Prlić, A.; Procter, J.B. (2012). "Ten simple rules for the open development of scientific software". PLOS Computational Biology 8 (12): e1002802. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002802. PMC PMC3516539. PMID 23236269. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3516539.
- ↑ Fogel, K. (2013). "Producing Open Source Software: How to Run a Successful Free Software Project". http://producingoss.com/en/. Retrieved 25 April 2013.
Notes
This presentation is faithful to the original, with only a few minor changes to presentation. In some cases important information was missing from the references, and that information was added. In a few cases, the URLs from 2013 were dead; they were updated with current URLs, and, when applicable, archived URLs from the Internet Archive.
