I often come back to this paper on how biotech labs and digital music studios engage with commercial, closed-source software packages and technical tools. The toolkit accessibility promise comes from organizations that “productize” and gatekeep/sell access to knowledge that is highly relevant and useful for scientific advancement, but not ultimately accessible in deeper ways. The paper discussed several ways to move research and learning forward in spite of commercial obstacles. https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1287/orsc.2015.1040 On Thu, Jul 10, 2025 at 8:11 AM Eric Gade via Members < members@lists.sigcis.org> wrote:

Hi all,

I am looking for any studies or surveys that look at the specific uses of computing (applications, hardware, and in particular anything "custom") across scientific fields, broadly defined. By "scientific" here I mean everything from physics to archaeology to psychology. Aside from a desire to familiarize myself with such literature, I'm also looking to form a kind of understanding of the computing cultures within or even across some of these disciplines, especially how these cultures contrast with the uses of computing in the wider commercial world.

Thanks for any guidance!

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