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“if you publish in a journal which charges for access, you are not published, you are privated. Published means to make public. If the public does not have access to it except for by a fee, it is not public, it is private.” - Dave Parry - Cameron Neylon from Bookmarklet

"Think of the book as one form, not the form. Indeed think of things that move beyond the book. What if you are writing didn’t have to be stable, didn’t have to have a final version, what if you could constantly update, change alter, make available your work. There will be no final copy, just the most recent version." (ca. 14:00) - Daniel Mietchen

Hundreds of doctors will this week call for a ban on NHS funding for homeopathic treatments. - Richard Carter, FCD

I used to drink those all the time - Benjamin Tseng

Oh wow ! I've gotta try and hunt down some of that before I leave Taiwan in a few days. - Andrew Perry

"While brilliant and progressive research continues apace here and there, the amount of redundant, inconsequential, and outright poor research has swelled in recent decades, filling countless pages in journals and monographs. Consider this tally from Science two decades ago: Only 45 percent of the articles published in the 4,500 top scientific journals were cited within the first five years after publication. In recent years, the figure seems to have dropped further. In a 2009 article in Online Information Review, Péter Jacsó found that 40.6 percent of the articles published in the top science and social-science journals (the figures do not include the humanities) were cited in the period 2002 to 2006." - Daniel Mietchen from Bookmarklet

my comment to that post: You wrote: > Too many academic groups seem to me to work on > problems that are beneath them. WTF? You know what will save humanity in 100 years? You know that some scientific discovery beneath you will remain completely irrelevant for as long as anybody can access this result? What kind of astrologist or prophet do you think you are? Einstein famously didn't... more... - Björn Brembs

So if the offer doesn't change, UC's going to fight back, and it will hurt. Boy, will it hurt. - Rich Apodaca

The response from NPG: http://www.nature.com/press_r... - Rich Apodaca

I think we all should boycott for-profit publishers, as long as the profits are generated from public funds and public research. - Björn Brembs

I can't think of any other business where the customers provide the content (for free) that is sold back to them. - Jo Badge

Akhter belongs to a motley band of "InfoLadies," who are piloting a revolutionary idea - giving millions of Bangladeshis, trapped in a cycle of poverty and natural disaster, access to information on their doorstep to improve their chances in life. "Ask me about the pest that's infecting your crop, common skin diseases, how to seek help if your husband beats you or even how to stop having children, and I may have a solution," says a confident Akhter. "An InfoLady's netbook is loaded with content especially compiled and translated in local Bangla language," says Mohammed Forhad Uddin of D.Net, a not-for-profit research organisation that is pioneering access to livelihood information. "It provides answers and solutions to some of the most common problems faced by people in villages." In Bangladesh this means nearly three-quarters of the nearly 160 million that live in rural areas. From agriculture to health, sanitation and disaster management, the content follows simple text, pictures... more... - Iphigenie from Bookmarklet

"The success of the InfoLadies is making the failure of the state more noticeable." - Sad truth. - Ashalynd

nice garden path sentence in the blurb, too -- I'm struggling to work out what doorstep-related information could be so critical, other than "Mind the step". - Joe Dunckley

The conference organising committee comprises Victor Henning (Mendeley), Matt Brown and Lou Woodley (Nature Publishing Group), Sarah Kemmitt (British Library), Richard P. Grant (Faculty of 1000) and Martin Fenner (Hannover Medical School). - Martin Fenner

@Martin, really looking forward to this year's event. This is maybe a bit off-topic for a session idea, but perhaps something on change management from an expert in the field would help with selling the idea of online science to others who just don't get it yet? (http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/infokit...) I'm just thinking back to the session on legal aspects of blogging last year which I think was in a similar vein. - Dan Hagon

Took the TSK team very little time to reply with misinformation and slurs. I left the following reply to Esposito: "The relevant quote does not refer to the flagship journals at all: "Given that the costs of publication are fully covered by publication fees, it is true that PLoS ONE has helped to move PLoS much closer towards independent economic sustainability. However, it is also the case that the PLoS Community Journals launched in 2005 are fully economically sustainable through publication fees and are now making a positive financial contribution to our organisation. There is no question that the financial impact of PLoS ONE is important for PLoS and for open-access publishing more broadly..." PLoS Community Journals (Comp Bio, Genetics, NTDs and Pathogens) are NOT the flagship journals (Bio and Med). Readers can decide for themselves who is doing the misleading here; disappointing indeed, Mr Esposito." - Bill Hooker

Original TSK post here, since it's not linked from the PLoS piece: http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2010... - Bill Hooker

Agree, Dorothea! The message is clear and this will only help people hear more quickly, in my opinion. Good work, Pete! - Steve Koch

"BMC Evolutionary Biology accepts only online submission. The submission process is compatible with version 3.0 or later of Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator, and with most other modern web browsers." - Dave Lunt from Bookmarklet

Wikipedia says "AOL formally stopped development of Netscape Navigator on December 28, 2007, but continued supporting the web browser with security updates until March 1, 2008, when AOL canceled technical support." - Dave Lunt

thanks for pointing it out -- the offending material has now quietly disappeared! BMC does of course test its sites in all the usual modern browsers -- though it occasionally forgets the things that it wrote on them eight years ago :) - Joe Dunckley

Most excellent..... - Graham Steel

I think the description will have to be changed a bit - most listed examples of Science2.0 are social networking sites and serve to connect people - not to share research results - Jean-Claude Bradley

There's a certain logic to this :) - Andrew Spong

Posted via email from Graham's 2.0 Bible thingy. - Graham Steel from Posterous

It strikes me that something like that could basically convert Pubmed from a database to a platform enabling all kinds of applications built on top of the data. - Mr. Gunn

(and thanks to Buzz for notifying me of your comments! I've been absent from friendfeed for a long time..) - Benjamin Good

The "blackmailer" may well be someone who has seen what happens to whistleblowers, and knows how few cases of misconduct ever actually make it to the ORI, or result in meaningful sanctions once they get there. Anonymous whistleblowing makes no noise at most institutions, where there is tremendous pressure to sweep misconduct cases under the rug at every opportunity, and so is a waste of time. The "blackmail" angle gets the cops involved, which means it can't be hidden. Hmmm. - Bill Hooker

I want a slide with a picture of someone wearing that on a t-shirt. Great way to make the point that science is the source code for the world. If we share science more effectively, more people can change the world in more ways. - Bill Hooker

Great quote. +1 for the T-shirt - I'd wear that (as long as it wasn't white). - Andrew Perry

Very thorough article! One might want to add that few industries would be able to sustain decades-long hyperinflation (to the point of >400% in 20 years) if it wasn't for the tax-payer coughing up the funds. Much of the disruption of traditional media comes from the shift of funds. Let the funds shift and scholarly publishing would be disrupted as all the other media sectors - despite any of the services they now provide for academia. - Björn Brembs

Not what you might expect from Angewandte Chemie... - Cameron Neylon

via Anna Croft - Cameron Neylon

See also this discussion: http://friendfeed.com/science... - Martin Fenner

Hmm, good point. There may even be some Atlantic divide in this. Not necessarily wrt social media, but wrt interest outside one's own field. Moreover, I'd speculate that there also is an age gap: as you get older, you feel confident enough also to look outside of your own field, because you've learned enough so your own field doesn't require all of your capacities any more. - Björn Brembs

What do you mean worked examples? In our open URL resolver article page we using the Scopus and the WoS APIs to provide links to similar articles and citing articles. It would be cool to be able to add if the article has been reviewed in f1000. This blog post describes: http://bibwild.wordpress.com/2009... . Is that what you're looking for or? - Christina Pikas

yeah, that's cool, thanks. We do have RSS on the dev site now: at least for every page that has changing information. - Richard P Grant

PQ - "One of the things we do here at PhysMath Central (and our sister companies BioMed and Chemistry Central) which not all publishers do is format our full-text articles in freely-available XML and MathML. From a production point of view it makes sense as we can generate html and pdf versions of the article from the same source, but beyond that there are a plethora of possibilities that anyone could exploit due to their machine-readability. However it seems that machine-readable documents have yet to find an enthusiastic audience beyond a few data-miniing specialists." - Graham Steel

Thanks for that, Cameron. - Graham Steel

Nice simple starting point. Philosophy here is to make it easy for the user to connect up objects that already exist somewhere on the web when they write up a lab report. - Cameron Neylon

incidentally the other half of this is something that looks like DropBox on scientific steroids. Files dropped into a directory get posted as blobs to the store with whatever metadata can possibly be captured - as far as possible with no user intervention. - Cameron Neylon

Bosco, this is a superb idea. Along with starting up a new journal/software hybrid, it will be great if existing journals insist users to submit source code, executable or VM of a bioinformatics software / database / server to a centralized repository like 'biohub.org'. - Khader Shameer

@Deepak. Yep. The disconnect I see is that pragmatically, it's the open-source project that counts. The article in the bioinformatics journal is so that we can get a place-holder to collect citations that contribute to our academic CV. The journal/software hybrid provides the most efficient way to this goal. - Bosco Ho