But where is the dense web of links generated by working scientists in many disciplines, using semantic web technology and simple cross reference electronically to tie together literature, datasets and experimental results into a real World Wide Web for science? The answer is, we cannot create such a web until scientific articles come out from behind the publishers’ firewalls. What might happen if we could build it? We do not know. Think of the speed of innovation that the open Web has unleashed. Then imagine that transformative efficiency applied to science and technology rather than selling books or flirting on social networks. This bill would forbid us from building the World Wide Web for science, even for the research that taxpayers have funded. And that is truly a tragedy.
http://works.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1012&context=ir_research - 2 views
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This paper is very interesting and perhaps is relevant to the future of open science and definately my section publishing.
FT.com / Technology / New Technology Policy Forum - Misunderestimating open science - 1 views
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This blog by James Boyle (FT), criticises a bill that was passed in the U.S in 2009. He suggests that it threatens transfer of knowledge and technological advance. Also, as the research is publicly funded, are the public well within their rights to have this open and free access. Rather then at the mercy of the commercial publisher?
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Farewell FriendFeed. It's been fun. | What You're Doing Is Rather Desperate - 0 views
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The 'in the now' problem is something which Twitter very much suffers from too
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This is an interesting piece on how some current tools don't quite do the job required of them by academics. Also comments are worth a read
Dryad data file: Dryad Home - 0 views
Cameron Neylon Presentations - 2 views
Science in the Open » Blog Archive » What is it with researchers and peer rev... - 0 views
The Digital Toolbox - a discussion -Science Online '11 - 0 views
PiratePad: 4vTLuh08Ja - 0 views
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Cameron Neylon on open science and his career path "I advocate open approaches and help to develop open tools because I believe that they will ultimately deliver the best return on the public investment in research. If someone can convince me that subscription based business models and hiding data behind pay walls is the most effective way of delivering that return then I will man the barricades with the CEO of Elsevier. I don't think it likely, I don't think those approaches offer good value for money either in economic terms or for social and community returns but IMO we should remain focussed on the need to responsibly discharge the public trust granted in us in spending research funding. And we live in very interesting times when it comes to both the level of that trust, and the view on how well we are discharging it."
www.datacite.org - What is DataCite - 0 views
5 steps to disrupt AND save academia. Hint: use startup investors | Mendeley Blog - 0 views
Scattered reflections on Science Online 2011 (#scio11) | Not Exactly Rocket Science | D... - 0 views
