Opening Science

Dr. Sascha Friesike heads the Open Science research team at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society. After studying Industrial Engineering at Berlin Technical University and conducting research at Stanford University’s Center for Design Research, he received his Ph.D. from the University of St. Gallen.  Dr. med. Sönke Bartling is an Open Science researcher and radiologist. He leads a basic research group on Personalized Interventional Oncotherapy at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg and is the section head of Translational Medicine at the Department of Clinical Radiology and Nuclear Medicine at the Mannheim University Medical Center.

• Towards Another Scientific Revolution.- Open Science: One Term, Five Schools of Thought.- Excellence by Nonsense: The Competition for Publications in Modern Science.- Science Caught Flat-footed: How Academia Struggles with Open Science Communication.- Open Science and the Three Cultures: Expanding Open Science to All Domains of Knowledge Creation.- (Micro)blogging Science? Notes on Potentials and Constraints of New Forms of Scholarly Communication.- Academia Goes Facebook? The Potential of Social Network Sites in the Scholarly Realm.- Reference Management.- Open Access: A State of the Art.- Novel Scholarly Journal Concepts.- The Public Knowledge Project: Open Source Tools for Open Access to Scholarly Communication.- Altmetrics and Other Novel Measures for Scientific Impact.- Dynamic Publication Formats and Collaborative Authoring.- Open Research Data.- Intellectual Property and Computational Science.- Research Funding in Science 2.0.- Open Innovation and Crowdsourcing in the Sciences.- The Social Factor in Open Science.- Case: Creative Commons.- Case: Collaborative Authoring using Google Documents and Cloud Software.- Case: Unique Identity for a Researcher.- Case: Challenges in Open Data in Medical Research.- Case: On the Sociology of Science 2.0.- Case: How This Book Was Created Using Collaborative Text Editing.- Case: History 2.0.- Case: Making Data Citeable: Datacite.

From the book reviews: "It is, as the subtitle indicates, an 'evolving guide,' valuable to everyone interested in digital scholarship. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All academic and professional libraries." (S. E. Wiegand, Choice, Vol. 51 (11), August, 2014)