Reinventing Discovery


Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science is a book written by Michael Nielsen and released in October 2011. It argues for the benefits of applying the philosophy of open science to research.
WWW press.princeton.edu/title...DOI 10.2307/J.CTVQSDST2

Summary

The following is a list of major topics in the book's chapters.
  1. Reinventing Discovery
  2. Online Tools Make Us Smarter
  3. :Kasparov versus the World, The Wisdom of Crowds, various online collaborative projects
  4. Restructuring Expert Attention
  5. :InnoCentive, collective intelligence, Paul Seabright's economic theory, online chat
  6. Patterns of Online Collaboration
  7. :History of Linux, Open Architecture Network, Wikipedia, MathWorks' computer programming contest
  8. The Limits and the Potential of Collective Intelligence
  9. :communication in small groups, particularly as studied by Stasser and Titus; praxis of science; a discussion of communication among scientists
  10. All the World's Knowledge
  11. :Don R. Swanson and Literature-based discovery, predicting influenza with Google searches, Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Allen Institute for Brain Science, Ocean Observatories Initiative, Human Genome Project, Google Translate,
  12. Democratizing Science
  13. :Galaxy Zoo, Foldit, citizen science, eBird, open access, arXiv, PLoS
  14. The Challenge of Doing Science in the Open
  15. :Complexity Zoo, academic publishing, Bayh–Dole Act
  16. The Open Science Imperative
  17. :Open science, academic journal publishing reform, SPIRES

Reviews

Timo Hannay's review in Nature said that in this book Nielsen gives "the most compelling and comprehensive case so far for a new approach to science in the Internet age".
The Financial Times review said that the book was "the most compelling manifesto yet for the transformative power of networked science".