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Open source science is the wave of the future
Open science, analogous to open source software development, is the way of the future. It greatly increases diversity and speed of work by lowering the cost of information, and thereby allowing many more people to participate in research. In a world in which information transmission is easy, it makes no sense to lock up scientific data. Publish early, publish often should be the mantra. Open science projects include: Epernicus, JournalFire, Nature Precedings, OpenWetWare, Science Commons, UnPubDatabase, Wikiomics ... more