The scientific method.
And these 11 items - Rules of a Scientist's Life. I am not sure about the original source, just like this blogger. The earliest reference I find is a pinterest page from December 2011.
For science to progress quickly there is great benefit in moving away from a “trusted source” model to one based on transparency and data provenance. Open Notebook Science offers an efficient way to make research transparent and discoverable.Dr. Bradley, we will miss you.
On the one hand information wants to be expensive, because it's so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your life. On the other hand, information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time. So you have these two fighting against each other.However, just because nformation can be valuable does not mean that it has to be expensive. Information can be valuable and free at the same time, so that is why I say that information wants to be valued. People who are open access advocates know that information is valuable, and they know that it isn't free. But, it can be free for the end user. There is a cost to providing high quality information, but there are different models for paying for the dissemination.
This basic economic formulation has given rise to the world of the Internet as we know it today with a plethora of free services, some of astonishing value, of which Google is simply the most prominent. But it wasn’t always this way and it may not be that way forever.It is true that it may not last forever, but content producers need to make content that people value and find worth paying for. People can get free television over the airwaves, but lots of people pay for entertainment content over cable, dish, or through services like Hulu or Netflix.
We work on the assumption that, even if we accept the idea that there are people out there who could use our work or could help, that we can never reach them. That there is no value in expending effort to even try. And we do this for a very good reason; because for the majority of people, for the majority of history it was true.Now, people are seeing that it is easy to reach an audience of Billions over the Internet. There is value in expending a small effort to try to reach them. The scholar can either publish in a gold open access journal, or he or she can post the preprint or the postprint manuscript to a green open access repository.