diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 3aae47b..fb561b6 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Welcome to Module 1 of the Open Science MOOC! Here you can find important inform - [**Production Toolkit**](https://github.com/OpenScienceMOOC/Module-1-Open-Principles/tree/master/production_toolkit) - This is where the basic protocols and outline for the module development are kept. It includes a tracking scheme as the content development progresses. -Don't forget to join us in our open [Slack group](https://openmooc-ers-slackin.herokuapp.com/)! The channel for this module is #module5opensource. You can also sign up to our mailing list [here](https://opensciencemooc.github.io/site/Contact/). +Don't forget to join us in our open [Slack group](https://openmooc-ers-slackin.herokuapp.com/), and also anyone can join the whole Open Science MOOC development team [here](https://open-science-mooc-invite.herokuapp.com/)! The channel for this module on Slack is #module5opensource. You can also sign up to our mailing list [here](https://opensciencemooc.eu/contact/). ## Table of Contents diff --git a/content_development/MAIN.md b/content_development/MAIN.md index e056978..9638cf3 100644 --- a/content_development/MAIN.md +++ b/content_development/MAIN.md @@ -188,16 +188,16 @@ The question to you is, *do you believe that science can help progress towards r In the 1660s, Robert Boyle, the "father of chemistry," broke with the practices of alchemy in his early writings, e.g., [The Sceptical Chymist](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sceptical_Chymist), and promoted open experimentation (following Roger Bacon's model). Previously, alchemists occulted their methods and their knowledge died with them. What might have been called "open alchemy" became "natural philosophy" and then "science." **Science was born open**. +The commitment to opening science to help make it more transparent and accessible is nothing new. For some historians of science openness marks the beginning of science itself: with the printing press, the rise of publication markets and empirical methods in the early modern period came both the professionalization of scientists and the institutionalization of the Academies [(David 2008)](https://ssrn.com/abstract=2209188). + +The earliest form of Open Science can perhaps trace its origins back the 17th century, and the origins of the academic journal, such as the [Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_Transactions_of_the_Royal_Society). *Transactions* collected and disseminated a broad range of observations and experiment descriptions and spread the work of the Invisible College, the informal gathering of natural philosophers at Oxford and elsewhere. Publication of scientific "news" was also catalysed by an increasing demand for the wider dissemination of scientific knowledge with the wider public. However, the origins can probably go back even further to the very birth of scholarly practices. Much of what we know about our world and universe has foundations in fundamental openness, from evolution and the origin of species, through to gravity and the origins of stars. +

The intersections of Open Science and Open Culture, by Katja Mayer (CC BY)


-The commitment to opening science to help make it more transparent and accessible is nothing new. For some historians of science openness marks the beginning of science itself: with the printing press, the rise of publication markets and empirical methods in the early modern period came both the professionalization of scientists and the institutionalization of the Academies [(David 2008)](https://ssrn.com/abstract=2209188). - -The earliest form of Open Science can perhaps trace its origins back the 17th century, and the origins of the academic journal, such as the [Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_Transactions_of_the_Royal_Society). *Transactions* collected and disseminated a broad range of observations and experiment descriptions and spread the work of the Invisible College, the informal gathering of natural philosophers at Oxford and elsewhere. Publication of scientific "news" was also catalysed by an increasing demand for the wider dissemination of scientific knowledge with the wider public. However, the origins can probably go back even further to the very birth of scholarly practices. Much of what we know about our world and universe has foundations in fundamental openness, from evolution and the origin of species, through to gravity and the origins of stars. - Although difficult to pin down exactly, the origins of what many call the modern 'Open Science movement' were probably catalysed by increasing frustration, debate, and distress regarding the impacts of 'closed science' (e.g., barriers such as subscription paywalls) and commercialisation of knowledge dissemination by corporate publishers. Indeed, one of the rallying cries of the Open Science movement is that taxpayers who have already paid to fund research should not be having to pay again to read the results of it. The term "Open Science" itself appears to have been coined by [Steve Mann in 1998](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_science#Coining_of_phrase_%22OpenScience%22). Today's "Open Science movement" though probably dates back about 30-40 years, and takes inspiration both from the history of "open source" and the "free software movement" [(Kelty 2008)](https://www.twobits.net/pub/Kelty-TwoBits.pdf) and the ideas developed for research collaboration in the context of "e-science". At a first glance these approaches refer mainly to the technological dimension of opening up science by creating necessary tools and infrastructures. Opening up science often takes the form of a technological liberation and change of techniques in respective discourses. However, keeping in mind that science and technology "are politics by other means" (Bruno Latour, 1978) - offering other means of power - it is vital to turn to the embedded politics of Open Science and its precursors.