Editing Lab notebook (section)

==Open lab notebooks==
{{Main|Open notebook science}}
Lab notebooks kept online have started to become as transparent to the world as they are to the researcher keeping them, a trend often referred to as Open Notebook Science, after the title of a 2006 blogpost by chemist [[Jean-Claude Bradley]]. The term is frequently used to distinguish this aspect of ''Open Science'' from the related but rather independent developments commonly labeled as ''[[open source]]'', ''[[open access]]'', ''[[open data]]'' and so forth. The openness of the notebook, then, specifically refers to the set of the following points, or elements thereof:
#Sharing of the researcher's laboratory notebook online in real time without password protection or limitations on the use of the data.
#The [[raw data]] used by the researcher to derive observations and conclusions are made available online to anyone.
#All experimental data are shared, including failed or ambiguous attempts.
#Feedback and other contributions to the research effort can be integrated easily with the understanding that everything is donated to the [[public domain]].
The use of a [[wiki]] makes it convenient to track contributions by individual authors.