The Society of Physics Students at UC Santa Cruz

‘Open Science’

Open Science was the original goal of the world wide web (WWW), when Tim Berners-Lee and his colleagues at CERN created a system for high energy particle physicists to share data and information.  It was such a promising beginning.  What happened?  As the world marches on with open source software, open media, open publishing, and all of the other openness that the WWW has inspired, science is being left behind in publishing and data sharing.  Science journals are online, but publishing in a journal few have access to, in an archaic format that has far less to do with the digital age that it does 1980s is not innovative.  The current Open Science movement is trying to change this.  Actions such as the recent vote by MIT faculty to make all scholarly publications openly available and efforts such as those by the Science Commons (a Creative Commons project) are signs that things are changing, but the movement is still in its infancy.  A lot of thought and action must still happen at all levels: government policy, university policy, publishing industry, and individual scientific attitude.  I will discuss the current movement, it’s history, and what still needs to be done to bring science into the open century.

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‘Science outside of Academia’

I would also like to talk about my experience doing science outside of academia and what I would do if I were at UCSC preparing for the job market.

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