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Academic Productivity » Soft peer review? Social software and distributed scientific evaluation
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“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.
Category: publishing
links for 2009-05-20
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Scribd is making a major move here. They are now direct competitors with Lulu and the POD establishment.
links for 2009-05-06
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Awesome presentation on distributed citizen science.
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An alternative metric. It get’s pretty complicated pretty fast, making it tough to add a coherant snippet.
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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…”
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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
links for 2009-04-23
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Richard Ackerman on Web 2.0 and science.
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Presenation for the Editors’ Conference this upcoming Saturday.
SciTopics launched!!! Congratulations to the SciTopics team!
“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.