{"id":528,"date":"2023-12-11T13:46:55","date_gmt":"2023-12-11T12:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.techlib.cz\/?p=528"},"modified":"2023-12-11T13:47:39","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T12:47:39","slug":"open-lab-notebook-open-notebook-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.techlib.cz\/index.php\/2023\/12\/11\/open-lab-notebook-open-notebook-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Lab Notebook \/ Open Notebook Science"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Written by <\/em>Eva Karbanov\u00e1<\/a>, a former NTK employee, a <\/em>CCBC<\/em><\/em> press secretary<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOpen notebook\u201d science is a practice in which research scientists record their work online and make it publicly available while conducting research in near-real time.<\/strong> Such research is thus completely open to the public and includes all its aspects such as raw data and any associated material. The approach was described by Bradley (2007), the first to use the term, as \u201cno insider information\u201d. Open notebook science makes the research process transparent and provides unsuccessful, not very significant, or unpublished outcomes (sometimes called \u201cdark data\u201d) to anyone interested<\/strong> (Goetz 2007).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let’s take a look at the primary advantages of this practice, according to the literature. According to Schapira, Harding and Consortium (2019, p. 3), open lab notebooks can save time, resources, and knowledge<\/strong>. Making the information accessible quickly means that other researchers will be able to build upon the open results, making it possible for others to avoid spending time and resources on redundant experiments (Powell 2016). Open lab notebooks should include detailed protocols to achieve experimental replicability. The necessity of more transparent, replicable experiments has been discussed recently (for example, by Nature 2016 and Wallach et al. 2018). Negative data from unpublished research might additionally provide important insights (Mlinari\u0107 et al. 2017; Nimpf and Keays 2020). Open lab notebooks can also give experts a space for discussion<\/strong>, to (for example) spot discrepancies in an experiment and so on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Early career researchers can use their notebooks to connect with peers and experts in the field. One can also add a link to one\u2019s research notebook in an academic CV when applying to a position in order to showcase technical skills (Schapira, Harding and Consortium 2019).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Possible drawbacks <\/strong>of open notebooks (Harding and Consortium 2019, Sanderson 2008, Schapira 2018, Zirnask 2014):<\/p>\n\n\n\n