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Interesting sites

Looking at open science through the prism of a social dilemma. The open science movement is itself the subject of scholarly research. Very interesting stuff!

“[O]pen science can be looked at through the prism of a social dilemma: what is in the collective best interest is not necessarily in the best interest of the individual scientist. The interesting question here is how the dilemma of putting open science into practice can be overcome.”

Open Worm – Open source project with the goal of recreating C elegans digitally. Maybe we’ve posted this before, but it was featured again at the recent Science in 3D meeting.

Useful resources

The Open Glossary is almost done, but you can still leave your comments and feedback.

Open Data Commons – legal tools for open data

Events

Three upcoming events, all free to attend:

• January 27 in London (UK) #FuturePub 4 – New developments in scientific publishing
• January 27 in Manchester (UK) Reproducibility in Science and Policy
• February 10, online webinar by DataONE: Open Data and Science: Towards Optimizing the Research Process

Finally, a collaborative list of lots of open science events around the world for the rest of the year.