Up on Science Exchange is my latest post in the ONS series. Today’s post talks about the incentives for doing open notebook science. Here is a snippet:

The inherent transparency to ONS forces you to think more critically about your research.

 

Knowing beforehand that your research will be open for scrutiny, you’ll think twice about taking that minor shortcut in the lab that may save you twenty minutes. And if you take the shortcut and decide not to publish, you’ll be critiqued for the omission. By consequence, publishing openly in real time forces you to be careful, thorough, and explicit. No one will be able to question the integrity of your research, because the entire record will be available to anyone.

You can read the rest of the article here: Open Notebook Series: Why You Should Be An Open Notebook Scientist.

And once you are done with that, you can check out my commentary on another issue in ONS. I was asked in DC last week how I would make money from open notebooks. I replied, “I wouldn’t” which was met with some hostility. Check out the rest of my answer here: Can you make money from open notebook science?