- “That’s the goal of a $12.2 million National Center for Research Resources grant awarded today to the University of Florida and collaborators at Cornell University, Indiana University, Weill Cornell Medical College, Washington University in St. Louis, the Scripps Research Institute and the Ponce School of Medicine in Puerto Rico. The funding stems from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.”
- Facebook for scientists gets millions in fundingCongratulations to Cornell/Florida/Vivo on their NCRR grant: “The University of Florida, Cornell University and a handful of other schools have been awarded $12.2 million to build a social/collaborative network for scientists and researchers. The idea is to make it easier to find research and like-minded researchers in an effort to speed new discoveries.”
- “There’s a rumor going around the Internet playground that Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) likes Blackboard (Nasdaq: BBBB) . As in, likes it likes it.” – I believe the author is starting the rumor if I understand correctly.
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Scholarly Reputation Management Online : The Challenges and Opportunities of Social Media
Session 6: Wissenschaftskommunikation 2.0
Social Software @ Work
Schloss Mickeln, Düsseldorf, 29. September 2009
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Abstract: Social media provides scholars with unprecedented opportunities to promote their accomplishments and expertise. Conversely, social media creates more identity information to for scholars to manage. Different facets of scholar identity online will be introduced. Within this framework, new types of identity content produced by social software and the challenges this creates will be discussed. Lastly, opportunities for using social software to manage scholarly reputation will be explored.
Discussion: http://twitter.com/#search?q=sosoft09
#sosoft09 Wordle
- “OK, so this has nothing to do with any CrossRef projects- but there is an interesting new PRC report out by Mark Ware in which he explores how SMEs (small/medium-sized enterprises) make use of scholarly articles and whether the scholarly publishing industry is doing anything to make their lives easier.”
- “Over a year ago I made one of the biggest decisions of my life. I packed up all my worldly belongings and moved to San Diego to begin working full-time for a small biotech startup.”
- Links
- “Despite being extremely busy with final preparations for Science Online London, Victor Henning, Founder & Director of the company behind the popular academic research management tool Mendeley was kind enough to take a little time over the weekend to address a few questions I’d posed to him.”
- Insightful post on scientific literature. “This got me wondering – why do we consider peer reviewed research to be important? I’d actually suggest that peer review is of secondary importance, so I’ll discuss that later (if I remember). So, why do we need a scientific literature?”
- “The latest in genetic testing from the Consumer Genetics Conference.”
- Promising new medical textbook review site put out by HS. “Medical Textbooks Revealed: The Naked Truth, from the people who brought you Flesh and Bones is a website essentially written by medical students for medical students and aims to take the ‘irk’ out of the sometimes irksome task of choosing the right medical textbooks for you…who better to guide you through this maze than your peers and ensure you spend your precious cash in the very best way?”
- An interesting essay on disruption and some lessons to be learned from newspapers. I don’t entirely agree with the prescription Michael offers though.
- Richard Ackerman on Web 2.0 and science.
- Presenation for the Editors’ Conference this upcoming Saturday.
Engaging a New Generation of Authors, Reviewers & Readers through Web 2.0
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This is the second presentation I will be giving to editors since having taken on the role of Product Manager for 2collab. The presentation breaks down into three sections.
First, I present the findings from the Social Media web survey conducted in May 2008 by my predecessors at 2collab. Conducted using Survey Monkey, 40,000 randomly sampled registered users of ScienceDirect were contacted with a 4.6% response rate yeilding 1,824 responses.
This survey demonstrated that early career researchers (25-44 yrs/old, 1-10 articles), are not only using social media heavily, but they are using it more for work than for play. When comparing how this demographic is currently using social media for work, with how the entirety of respondents expect social media to be used in the next two years, one can see gaps in what tools are available and what are desired. A lot of what I am working on as a Collaboration Tools Product Manager will try to fill these and other gaps in a researcher’s workflow.
After showing how early career researchers are currently using social media, I delve into 2collab as an example of one possible tool journal editors can use to engage with this demographic. One of my primary suggestions is suggesting that authors use 2collab to share their articles alongside supplementary content related to their articles. For example, one can use 2collab to share images from a paper, related presentations, and the article itself all in one place. One of the reasons I was motivated to write this post was to practice what I preach. Some screenshots of Flickr, Slideshare, my blog, and 2collab, related to this post are still to be included in the appendix of the presentation as an example.
Last, I open things up for discussion. To do this I prompt editor’s to think about how they can apply available Web 2.0 tools to the tasks of editing, such as promotion of articles. For those of you familiar with my Master’s paper, you will recognize this methodology as 1 part of my Academic 2.0 theory.
When you get a chance, please take a look at the presentation and let me know if you have any suggestions about how journal editor’s or authors can use social media.
Also, please send any examples you know of editors using social media such as blogs or Flickr to interact with authors, editorial boards, or readers. Thanks.
We’re Not Dead Yet! – 11/15/2004 – Library Journal
“University presses can survive and thrive if university libraries work with them to create a sustainable future for scholarly communication” by Barbara Fister and Niko Pfund — Library Journal, 11/15/2004
AAUP & ARL: 2004 The Year of the University Press
“The Development of an Open Source Publishing System by Terry Ehling, Director of Electronic Publishing at Cornell University Library. Prior to her Cornell appointment, she was Manager of the Digital Projects Lab at the MIT Press. “
“The adoption of open-source publishing systems like DPubS can correct the imbalance in the scholarly communication environment by providing a venue for nontraditional publishing initiatives.”
“University presses are at the cutting edge of electronic publishing, often working in collaboration with each other, with their university libraries, and with scholarly societies. Below are links to some of the e-Publishing initiatives currently under wa
