Self-archiving and collaboration in science 2.0: an exploratory study

The use of information technologies (from formal electronic laboratory notebooks to informal word processing files and spreadsheets) for tracking research results, local and collaborative laboratory data management, and the teaching of basic scientific methodology are of increasing importance to the conduct of scientific research. While there has been a significant amount of research interest in large-scale collaboration and the use of cyberinfrastructure, there is still a great deal of work being done in "small science". This poster presents preliminary results from a comparative study of self-archiving and data management practices in two scientific portals, myexperiment.org and openwetware.org. Analysis of the sites to suggest how scientists choose these portals, how they use to collaborate, and how they are integrated into other information practices will be discussed.