{"id":2683,"date":"2013-03-12T08:06:12","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T12:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/?p=2683"},"modified":"2013-06-18T14:37:42","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T18:37:42","slug":"polymath-and-open-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/polymath-and-open-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Polymath and open science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2013\/03\/Polymath.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2711 alignnone\" alt=\"Polymath\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2013\/03\/Polymath-1024x856.png\" width=\"526\" height=\"439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2013\/03\/Polymath-1024x856.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2013\/03\/Polymath-300x250.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2013\/03\/Polymath-358x300.png 358w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2013\/03\/Polymath.png 1117w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Internet has inspired scientists to collaborate in new ways, such as with citizen science (<a title=\"Calling all citizen scientists\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/2013\/03\/07\/calling-all-citizen-scientists\/\">posted last week<\/a>).\u00a0Take a look at the author of this article published in the physics eprint repository, <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/\">arXiv<\/a>.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/polymath1\/index.php?title=Main_Page\">Polymath<\/a> is\u00a0not actually a person, it is a project. It began on the blog of a mathematician (Tim Gowers) in 2009 when an open invitation was sent out for anyone to contribute to solving a math problem that remained unsolved \u2013 it was solved in 37 days.<\/p>\n<p>Polymath is a success story from the open science movement, where\u00a0scientists are encouraged to share their research as early as possible in the process and not wait for formal publication. There are individuals, like\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/michael-a-nielsen\/\">Michael Nielsen<\/a> (watch his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/michael_nielsen_open_science_now.html\">Open science now!<\/a> TED Talk),\u00a0trying to change the culture of science and speed up scientific discovery. Open science is similar to the open access movement that aims to have journal articles openly available to all. It includes things like open notebooks where researchers keep online notes with their methods and research results (even if they were unsuccessful).<\/p>\n<p>How would you encourage collaboration and openness in scientific research?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Internet has inspired scientists to collaborate in new ways, such as with citizen science (posted last week).\u00a0Take a look at the author of this article published in the physics eprint repository, arXiv.\u00a0Polymath is\u00a0not actually a person, it is a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/polymath-and-open-science\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[188,7],"class_list":["post-2683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-open-science","tag-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2683"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2721,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2683\/revisions\/2721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}