<div dir="ltr">Open research practices seek to make scientific practice more efficient and accessible. A new book offers an overview of the Open Science landscape. Benedikt Fecher, Sönke Bartling, Sascha Friesike outline why ‘research on research’ is necessary and also demonstrate <b><font color="#ff0000">how to contribute to the collection via GitHub.</font></b><br>
<br>A cultural shift in how science can be done is under way as a result of the rapid dissemination of the Internet in almost every sector of day-to-day reality. <b><font color="#ff0000">There is a new approach towards knowledge creation and dissemination called Open Science.</font></b> One could see it as an umbrella term for a movement that advocates the sustainable use of modern communication technology for a more transparent, accessible and collaborative scientific culture.<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">
</div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"></div><br><a href="http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2014/02/19/opening-science-the-evolving-guide/">http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2014/02/19/opening-science-the-evolving-guide/</a></div>
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