- “The US economic stimulus package contained substantial funds designated for scientific work and, eventually, we’re going to want to know whether that was money well spent. But providing anything more than the simplest of measures will be a real challenge.” – I am all for increased spending on basic science, but am not sure calling it stimulus money is entirely accurate.
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- Scribd is making a major move here. They are now direct competitors with Lulu and the POD establishment.
- Awesome presentation on distributed citizen science.
- An alternative metric. It get’s pretty complicated pretty fast, making it tough to add a coherant snippet.
- Sandeep Guatam’s thoughts on the Patil and Siegel article: “However, while they believe that all the tools for online collaboration are already in place, I on the other hand think we need a more formalized one-stop system for scientists, where all their sharing, networking and collaborating needs are met…”
- Inspiring article fantasizing about the potential of more collaborative science – “What if everyone in the world were in your lab – a ‘hive mind’ of sorts, but composed of countless creative intellects rather than mindless worker ants, and one in which resources, reagents and effort could be shared, along with ideas, in a manner not dictated by institutional and geographical constraints? by Chris Patil and Vivian Siegel* via Chris’ FF
- Richard Ackerman on Web 2.0 and science.
- Presenation for the Editors’ Conference this upcoming Saturday.
“SciTopics is a free, wiki-like service for the scientific community, where scientific experts summarize specific scientific topics, and where links to the latest, most relevant journal literature and web sources are presented on one page.” Originally born as Scirus Topic Pages Beta, Scitopics has come of age. Currently there are 650 pages and many more are currently being worked on. For more details, check it out for yourself or read more about it in this Information Today article.
- “The ten semifinalists were chosen by a distinguished panel of judges from among over 70 excellent entries offering a range of approaches involving semantics, visualization, protocols, social networks, and citations.”
- “We’ve worked hard to build the Article 2.0 dataset, and now we’re opening it up to developers via a simple, straightforward REST API. We will provide contestants with access to approximately 7,500 full-text XML scientific articles (including images)?
In the report, released this month, Cell’s impact factor increased to 29.9 from 29.2 in prior year, placing Cell higher than competing research journals Science and Nature in this ThomsonReuters ranking.
- Spreadsheet assembled by Chris Messina comparing the various contact mapping solutions.
- Random House/Zogby Poll: 82% of Readers Prefer Curling Up With a Printed Book To New Reading Technology.pdf available from the bottom of the article. The demographic differences are interesting.
- “The Elsevier Grand Challenge: Knowledge Enhancement in the Life Sciences is a contest created to improve the way scientific information is communicated and used. The contest invites members of the scientific community to describe and prototype a tool to
- from comments: “I especially wanted to mention that all finalists get the opportunity to work with a large collection of Elsevier’s proprietary life science content, including the full text XML and PDF of our life science journals and our proprietary thes
