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I've thought about including reviewers' comments in "behind the scenes" blog posts about my papers, as a step towards transparency. I'd certainly be interested in reading peer reviews of papers I've liked (or not liked). But on a broader scale, I wonder if institutionalizing this process would be a more feasible step towards reforming peer review as compared to, say, completely open/signed reviews (as Daniel alludes in his first sentence). - Jason Snyder

I am planning an ESOF session on peer review for newbies - anyone game to get involved? http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki... - Daniel Mietchen

I know about Hubmed and the titles thing here: http://www.library.uq.edu.au/endnote... as well as the mail merge Excel trick here: http://tinyurl.com/65bq6zx (pdf) Am I missing anything? - Meg VMeg

Wizfolio did a really crappy job when I tried it. - Meg VMeg

Similar to Greg Landrum's argument for open sourcing code developed while in a company... - Noel O'Boyle

Didn't Linus Torvalds say that the best backup was to upload everything and let the world mirror it? - Morton Fox

Regarding git, that's right. But that's sort of different, as Cameron is talking about the right to access in 6-months time, more than just backup. - Noel O'Boyle

Tip 1: Give yourself a professional face with a Mendeley Web profile. A brief sampling of researchers who actively use Mendeley shows the amazing effect that a complete profile can have. Among researchers who have publications listed on their profile, those with a picture, educational or work experience, or contact info listed have twice as many readers of their papers, their profiles are viewed 4 times as often, and they tend to have 4 times as many contacts. With this kind of impact, isn't it worth taking 5 minutes to add or update your profile? Just click the link to your profile and select the edit tab to get started.

I think this is my favorite XKCD ever. - Marianne from Bookmarklet

Bill, that would be superb. - Marianne

Is there a good tutorial on how to use CSL? Say, I have JSON from CiteULike (or Mendelay), who do I use CSL to create nicely formatted HTML? Do I need to hack the CSL styles to get HTML output? Do I to add RDFa to the HTML? In short, where can I found the "CSL Design 101"? - Egon Willighagen

@egon - on how to use, you're looking for documentation related to different implementations, the most relevant of which would be citeproc-js (for server or client-side javascript) or pandoc/citeproc-hs (for a wicked fast haskell version that can be used with markdown). http://gsl-nagoya-u.net/http... - Bruce D'Arcus

Learned Publishing, Vol. 22, No. 2. (April 2009), pp. 85-94. Recent developments in Web technology can be used for semantic enhancement of scholarly journal articles, by aiding publication of data and metadata and providing 'lively' interactive access to content. Such semantic enhancements are already being undertaken by leading STM publishers, and automated text processing will help these enhancements become affordable and routine. Publisher, editor, and author all have primary roles in that process; an incremental approach is needed. Publication of data and metadata to the Web make possible added-value 'ecosystem services'; semantic publishing will bring substantial benefits to scholarly communication. David Shotton - Martin Fenner

Fenner: Cite papers in blogs using <a href=... rel="cito:discusses"> to provide meaningful citation context. http://bit.ly/h9oaEJ - Heather Piwowar

"Your research, your peers, your impact • Promote and enjoy real-time Open Access to research • Share primary data, working papers, books, media links... • Receive feedback and reviews from your peers • Expose your work to those that matter • Aggregate qualitative indicators about your impact • Drive, build and share your online reputation" - Thomas Brox Røst from Bookmarklet

So far, a lot of #pants - Have managed to create a page, no avatar options. #update I take that back. Having Skype'd with Aalam for 20 mins, things are well cool. - Graham Steel

RT @ostephens: Interesting thoughts from @gluejar based on analysis of Huddersfield circ data #jiscad http://bit.ly/eeWhsX (URL helps) - aarontay

See, that's how easy it can be! - Egon Willighagen

good to see this spelled out, Martin :-) "What you want is at least a direct link to the cited work using the DOI (if available), and a lot of journals do that. You don’t want to have a link to PubMed using the PubMed ID as the only option (as in PubMed Central), as this requires a few more mouseclicks to get to the fulltext article. And you don’t want to go to an extra page, then use a link to search the PubMed database, and then use a few more mouseclicks to get to the fulltext article..." - Claudia Koltzenburg

Can anybody provide context of that quote? - Pawel Szczesny from iPhone

Context is that journal impact factor is bogus and Mendeley wants to build systems to render it obsolete. - Heather Piwowar

Thank you Heather. Much appreciated. - Pawel Szczesny from iPhone

The problem with refs as links is that they do not import nicely in all tools... - Egon Willighagen

What would be really nice would be to leverage Zemanta for this. I stopped using the Tiny MCE editor because it wasn't compatible with Zemanta when I first set things up. Should possibly go back and have another look. - Cameron Neylon

IMHO, someone should build a reference management solution for Wordpress that is a comprehensive as Drupal's biblio module http://drupal.org/project... - Matt Leifer

A Google Scholar Universal Gadget which enables users to search for the total number of citations of author(s). It provides a total citation count, total number of cited publications and Jorge E. Hirsch's H-Index. - Pierre Lindenbaum

kinda of works for me but I have reasonably unique name - Pedro Beltrao

I'm guessing if it's '06 then it isn't on slideshare? But yes, I suspect a lot has changed but not perhaps so much has happened as a result of that change? - Cameron Neylon

Thanks all. I think it went down reasonably well live, although I don't think it went as smoothly as it could because I lost time at the beginning. But there was some pretty positive responses from people afterwards and on twitter. There was video taken but not sure whether it will be made available. - Cameron Neylon

Some weeks ago, I reported on a list of criteria for a journal of the future and set up an editable version. Since then, the document has been brushed quite a bit, and I think the criteria are now at a stage where they can be put to a practical test. Please give them a try via https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc... . - Daniel Mietchen

I also noticed that most of the data for the Transparency subcriteria are hard to track down, so I usually filled in a 0 after about 5min of search on the site. Yet articles like http://dx.doi.org/10... exist for all of these subcriteria, and together, they strongly suggest that these points should matter, at least for the journal of the future. - Daniel Mietchen

My first SciVerse impresssion: one big advertisement... where did they hide the actual functionality?? - Egon Willighagen

The functionality is at http://www.hub.sciverse.com/action... if you have access. I'm disappointed in the blurk-yellow they chose for its theme, but at least they haven't inflicted that on ScienceDirect or Scopus. #shallow - Deborah Fitchett

First up is Caroline Sutton ( http://www.co-action.net/about... ); recommends book "Built to last" ( http://www.amazon.com/Built-L... ) for those who run visionary organizations (see also http://marksylvester.blogspot.com/2009... on the "tyranny of the OR" as in the misconception "you can have OA or quality" or "OA or peer review"). Solution: You have to be conservative and bold at the same time - conservative about your core business, but bold about the process. Be careful not to confuse those things. OA publishers (as a group) are conservative about their shared core values (Building things to last: scientific vigour, integrity, preservation of the scientific record etc.) and try to stimulate the process of publishing. - Daniel Mietchen

Wrap-up of the conference, by Caroline Sutton: http://oaspa.org/blog... . - Daniel Mietchen

Congratulations, Andrew! - Daniel Mietchen

Woohoo! Looks like I get to stay at GNF for a while... - Benjamin Good

I've been watching the reflection on the Science Blogs diaspora and the wider conversation on what next for the Science Blogosphere with some interest because I remain both hopeful and not very confident that someone somewhere is really going crack the problem of effectively using the social web for advancing science. I don't really have anything to add to Bora's masterful summary of the larger picture but I wanted to pick out something that was interesting to me and that I haven't seen anyone else mention. - Cameron Neylon

I agree the reluctant crowd (that's a great term incidentally is there a cite for that or is it yours?) is the biggest issue. I hope that there will be an element of just capturing behaviour rather than intention that will help (tho that raises privacy issues as always) but the key will come when people value the publication of intention and curation. In a sense its a return to... more... - Cameron Neylon

That would be a "Yes". - Graham Steel

Sure, good thinking. - joergkurtwegner

why not, but getting time commitments would be important. - Sandeep Gautam

Some approaches to the back catalog problem -- that is, what do we do when all publishing is OA (green or gold) and all the Big Pigs have left is their back catalog? - Bill Hooker from Bookmarklet

Low hanging fruit it's not - but articles like the original Kalman filter one from trans asme would be worth it - Christina Pikas from iPhone

Although I think that figure of $200M is low by at least one order of magnitude - Cameron Neylon from Android

Indeed, original blog post now includes this text: [Update - Alan Cann gave me this link, which puts the cost at £1.9Billion a year] http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story... - Chris Leonard

Friday and Saturday last week I had the privilege of attending the first Sage Congress. Hopefully this will be the first in a series of posts that cover that meeting because there is simply so much to think about and so much to just get on and do. This is not a post about public engagement work by scientists. It is not about going to schools and giving talks. It is not about engaging with the main stream media to present your work to the great unwashed. It is about engaging with the people who will be driving your research agenda within ten years, about how the way researchers connect with society will be changed over the next decade whether they like it or not. - Cameron Neylon

I like Gilles post at http://e-patients.net/archive... making a case for the concept of "patient as platform" which is a great soundbite that captures my view well. Sounds like the panel was really interesting certainly. - Cameron Neylon

bristling a little at the "most notably" bit, but good post! ;-) - Mr. Gunn

I don't see why anyone would be surprised that Nautre/Macmillan gets a "royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive worldwide licence to use, copy, edit, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, make available, communicate and distribute Your Content (in whole or part) and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media, or technology now known or later... more... - Greg Tyrelle