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title: "Reinventing Discovery"
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source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinventing_Discovery"
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category: "reference"
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tags: "science, encyclopedia"
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date_saved: "2026-05-05T03:50:09.310809+00:00"
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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.
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== Summary ==
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The following is a list of major topics in the book's chapters.
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Reinventing Discovery
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Online Tools Make Us Smarter
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Kasparov versus the World, The Wisdom of Crowds, various online collaborative projects
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Restructuring Expert Attention
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InnoCentive, collective intelligence, Paul Seabright's economic theory, online chat
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Patterns of Online Collaboration
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History of Linux, Open Architecture Network, Wikipedia, MathWorks' computer programming contest
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The Limits and the Potential of Collective Intelligence
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communication in small groups, particularly as studied by Stasser and Titus; praxis of science; a discussion of communication among scientists
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All the World's Knowledge
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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, playchess.com Tournaments
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Democratizing Science
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Galaxy Zoo, Foldit, citizen science, eBird, open access, arXiv, PLoS
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The Challenge of Doing Science in the Open
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Complexity Zoo, academic publishing, Bayh–Dole Act
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The Open Science Imperative
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Open science, academic journal publishing reform, SPIRES
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appendix - The problem solved by the Polymath Project
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== Reviews ==
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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".
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The Financial Times review said that the book was "the most compelling manifesto yet for the transformative power of networked science".
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== References ==
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== External links ==
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Official website
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Interview in Citizen Science Quarterly |