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It would be a place where people (students, junior faculty, etc) could learn the ropes of academia and science without the pain and misery that traditionally is required. The differences I can see from existing services is the focus on journal club-style discussions and maybe a low barrier to entry - Shirley Wu from twhirl

bumping for http://ff.im/LIliG - Daniel Mietchen

"The Open Citations Project is global in scope, designed to change the face of scientific publishing. It aims to make bibliographic citation links as easy to use as Web links. Its goals are three-fold: To establish OpenCitations.net, a public RDF triplestore for biomedical literature citations. (Note: In this context, a bibliographic citation is a reference within a particular citing work to another publication termed the cited work. This use of the word ‘citation’ should be clearly distinguished from the common related use of this word to indicate the cited work itself. Within this application, ‘cite’ and ‘citation’ denote the performative act of citation itself, not the target document of that citation.) To harvest the reference lists from many current and recent open access journal articles, and to convert these datasets into RDF, starting with those in UK Pubmed Central, those published by the Public Library of Science and Biomed Central, those from other publishers willing for... more... - Mike Chelen from Bookmarklet

@Neil, thanks, interesting idea, I guess that could be one place to start! - Lucy Power

Back in the late 80s there was some research in the engineering technological gatekeepers literature showing that researchers would not walk 400 feet to the library to find an answer to a question, but would instead repeat the study. This was part of a body of literature examining preferred information sources for different specialties, with similar findings for all professions studied. I used the cite in a paper I wrote, but I no longer have electronic access to the original. If I can find it ... ? - Patricia F. Anderson

And available electronically. Nice - Deepak Singh

Thought experiment: Replace "ideas" by some other noun. I just tried "XML", "money", "weapon-grade Plutonium", "jokes" and "problems", and they all still fit into this general depiction. - Daniel Mietchen

It would be really nice if the Google Docs API supported the right hooks for use to do this. - Mr. Gunn

Carl, you point a big problem that goes beyond managing citations for a blog. I'm a big fan of DOIs, and I'm always confused why so many places prefer their own internal identifier (PubMed is a prime example). - Martin Fenner

What a story! Academia --> hedge fund --> ridiculous wealth --> self-funded academic research - Andrew Su

Wonder how long that'll hold up with Blue Waters around the corner. http://gladiator.ncsa.illinois.edu/vidcast... - Christopher Fields

"It is not possible, nor is it desirable, to own nothing. In fact, a point comes when not owning critical stuff (a bed, a toilet, a room) starts becoming stressful again, in a whole different way from "too much stuff" stress. "Simplicity" is a relative term, and perhaps inapt; try "convenience", which has more useful connotations. Fitting my life into a small number of boxes tucked under my bed makes me happy. Fretting over the precise enumeration of the items in those boxes would completely defeat the object of the exercise." - edythe from Bookmarklet

"There is no silver bullet for reforming America’s health care system, but medical experts have long agreed that digital patient records and electronic prescribing can help improve care and curb costs. It seems straightforward. Just combine technology skills with investment money, and then develop innovative products. But to date, the push for a digital revolution in doctors’ offices has brought mostly frustration for the many companies big and small that are trying to conquer the field. Just ask the Doerr brothers — John Doerr, the well-known venture capitalist who was an early backer of Google and Amazon, and Dr. Tom Doerr, a physician and software designer. Dr. Doerr founded a software company in 1999, beginning with an electronic prescribing product and later adding electronic health records. His brother is the largest investor. After more than a decade, the venture has fewer than 500 doctors using its software." - RAPatton from Bookmarklet

"The Doerrs’ software company is only one of many hoping to cash in on the national mandate for digital medical records. The companies range from giants like General Electric to specialists like Athenahealth that cater to small physician practices. They, like the Doerrs, are betting that the law will help create a turning point for the economics of digital health records, opening the... more... - RAPatton

"Greetings. Code Quarterly is a new publication that intends to publish in-depth articles of interest to hackers. Readers will be able to read them on the web or buy DRM-free PDFs, Kindle and iPad versions, and print-on-demand paper copies. Subscribers to our print journal will receive a beautifully typeset quarterly containing all the articles from the past three months." - Deepak Singh from iPhone

I think an anti-academia rant on bbgm is long overdue :) - Deepak Singh

No, absolutely not. But my point is that there are many things PIs could do to radically increase the effectiveness of their research in terms of patient outcomes (particularly in cancer where Heather Piwowar has shown for some types of data a significant negative correlation with data sharing i.e. the study having to do with cancer is significantly _negatively_ correlated with sharing... more... - Cameron Neylon

Charles Beagrie Limited has released the "Keeping Research Data Safe Factsheet." Here's an excerpt: This factsheet illustrates for institutions, researchers, and funders some of the key findings and recommendations from the JISC-funded Keeping Research Data Safe (KRDS1) and Keeping Research Data Safe 2 (KRDS2) projects. - Bill Hooker from Bookmarklet

"Readersourcing.org is an independent, third-party, non-profit, academic/scientific endeavour, aimed at quality rating of both scholarly literature and scholars." - Bill Hooker from Bookmarklet

Wow. And here I thought I've already read every paper/author on the subject of improving peer review/scholarly communication. Yet, I'm somewhat ashamed to admit I've never heard of this guy (behind this site) before. - Wobbler

Cool explanation of today's silly decision-making tragedies :-) - Björn Brembs

I always make the argument that this kind of secrecy is good for the supervisor but bad for the student. They need to get their name out and in front of their next employer probably more than they need that paper at this stage in the career. That's a very broad generalisation but there's an element of truth in it. The other approach is to make the point that they shouldn't make it public if they don't want it public but that isn't as positive and encouraging a tack to take. - Cameron Neylon

Many thanks for all the comments. I think that those on the blog and Friendfeed show the range of thoughts on this issue. I think it does need to be pointed out that medical education research is different to lab-based disciplines. Doctoral researchers are likely to be based in or taking the approaches of social sciences rather than medical sciences. Researchers, like other education... more... - Anne Marie Cunningham

No slides, but clickstream via http://science-2-0.piratenpad.de/Science... . Please chime in there, or comment here. Thanks! Related older threads: http://ff.im/gaWDe and http://ff.im/9SvED and http://ff.im/8Wiki and http://ff.im/3Zk6I . - Daniel Mietchen

A successful cybernaute activity ESOF on Facebook : Invitation to Social Funding tour on ESOF 2010 Torino - Our selection Plan A, B, C. http://www.facebook.com/topic... - project sh feed

Not sure whether the bill really holds what this heading promises. Have not seen detailed text yet, though (let alone understand its precise implications). - Daniel Mietchen

Should be fun to see someone just rustle up a simple service for this. Some day there will be enough of a developer ecosystem where such stuff just shows up cause developing software and making it available is a good thing - Deepak Singh

Agreed. I suppose I am hoping for a day where all of that will happen, but this also speaks to the thread that Pawel started around Open Data. That's why the data is so important. Without that, the ability of smart dev/bioinformaticians to build the software is severely restricted - Deepak Singh

We should make a list of people working in industry and people working in academia ... especially for any comments flying in on this ;-) I am an industry person with a strong believe in some "open" aspects, clearly not all. - joergkurtwegner

One of the confusions in the use of the term "open source" was described by Richard Stallman in a CACM Viewpoint (http://doi.acm.org/10...) on open source and free software: "Open source is a [software] development methodology; free software is a social movement." "Open data" is not a data development method; it's a data sharing practice, and one that can be supported by policies and procedures. It is helpful to avoid conflating this with a software development practice. - Bill Anderson

“The partnership with the KB is another step in helping make the world's books searchable and accessible for anyone with a connection to the Internet. We're delighted to be able to help accelerate the work that the KB is already doing to make Dutch cultural heritage digitally accessible - via Google Books, via their own website, and at a later date, via the work they do with the European Union's Europeana portal.” - Dan Brickley

this sounds promising, I wonder what the license terms will be for the results of this work... - Dan Brickley

"I believe there is a real need for a communal effort in making academic theses more Open and would like the OKF to set up a project along these lines." - brainstorming via http://open-thesis.okfnpad.org/initial... . - Daniel Mietchen from Bookmarklet

I think you could get around the copyright issue by posting it in the library repository with a CC license. But you're right - the PQDT database doesn't state you can reuse and share the work. I agree Dorothea that getting students to get a CC or more open license for a dissertation is a lot of work. - Elizabeth Brown

I've never done this before, but must say it's an extremely insightful experience, to summarize someone else's papers, in straight words. I recommend it to everyone - Marcin Wojnarski