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.

Summary
The following is a list of major topics in the book's chapters.


 * 1) Reinventing Discovery
 * 2) Online Tools Make Us Smarter
 * Kasparov versus the World, The Wisdom of Crowds, various online collaborative projects
 * 1) Restructuring Expert Attention
 * InnoCentive, collective intelligence, Paul Seabright's economic theory, online chat
 * 1) Patterns of Online Collaboration
 * History of Linux, Open Architecture Network, Wikipedia, MathWorks' computer programming contest
 * 1) The Limits and the Potential of Collective Intelligence
 * communication in small groups, particularly as studied by Stasser and Titus; praxis of science; a discussion of communication among scientists
 * 1) All the World's Knowledge
 * 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
 * 1) Democratizing Science
 * Galaxy Zoo, Foldit, citizen science, eBird, open access, arXiv, PLoS
 * 1) The Challenge of Doing Science in the Open
 * Complexity Zoo, academic publishing, Bayh–Dole Act
 * 1) The Open Science Imperative
 * Open science, academic journal publishing reform, SPIRES
 * appendix - The problem solved by the Polymath Project

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".