Disentangle Things by Ivan Hanigan

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the-history-of-ons

according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_notebook_science
The term Open Notebook Science[7] was first used in a blog post by Jean-Claude Bradley,
This article http://www.infotoday.com/it/sep10/Poynder.shtml

says Jean-Claude Bradley an organic chemist at Drexel University in Philadelphia. As with most scientists, Bradley used to be very secretive. He kept his research under wraps until publication and frequently applied for patents on his work in nanotechnology and gene therapy.

However, he asked himself a difficult question 5 years ago: Was his research having the kind of impact he would like? He had to conclude that the answer was “no,” and this was partly a consequence of the culture of secrecy that permeates research today. So Bradley was determined to be more open. Since his collaborators were not of the same mind, he severed his ties with them and, in 2005, he launched a web-based initiative called UsefulChem. As the name implies, the aim of the initiative was also to work in the world of useful science and, today, Bradley makes new anti-malarial compounds.
Other links
http://opensourcemalaria.org/
http://malaria.ourexperiment.org/
Mat Todd’s group is at the School of Chemistry at The University of Sydney is practicing this with a (Schistosomiasis notebook and Malaria notebook)
http://openwetware.org/wiki/Todd