[Taxacom] The New Einsteins Will Be Scientists Who Share

[Frederick W. Schueler]

On 10/29/2011 11:47 PM, Donat Agosti wrote:
> This is well worth reading on open access and sharing

* very slow uptake on this in the Canadian herpetological community - 
http://pinicola.ca/h2001a.htm - "As a peer-reviewer of herpetological 
manuscripts, I'm frequently struck by how many authors fail to deposit 
copies of their data in a publicly accessible archive. Not making data 
public has such a long history that it has become one of the major 
structural weaknesses of observation-based natural history, bleeding 
away masses of painfully acquired information that could have been 
invaluable for replication of results or reanalysis but are not 
(editors' 'cannot be') presented in published papers..."

Academics are the class of observers making the least contribution to 
herpetofaunal atlases, and the atlases, on the other hand, seem to shun 
structures or promotions that would make their other observations more 
useful to research.

fred.
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> Donat
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> From--- Jonathan Gray
> Sent: Sunday, 30 October 2011 12:19 AM
> To: open-science
> Subject: [open-science] The New Einsteins Will Be Scientists Who Share
>
> Nice punchy piece from Michael Nielsen in the Wall Street Journal:
>
> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204644504576653573191370088.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
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