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Science, and Scientists, Open Up

Jan 22, 2007

Over at the far-more-intellectual-than-we-are 3 Quarks Daily blog, molecular biologist Bill Hooker pens a thorough and thoughtful essay on open source, open access, and "open science" in general. He writes, "Open Science is very much in its infancy at the moment; we don't know precisely what its maturity will look like, but we have good reason to think we'll like it." We think you'll like his essay, which takes examples from DNA sequencing, PubMed, and the impact factors of scientific journals.

 

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