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A research paper considers new scientists' publishing and presentation activities using blogs, websites, and social media in the context of the scientific publishing enterprise.

InnoCentive and NPG Launch Nature.com Open Innovation Pavilion InnoCentive, Inc., the global open innovation marketplace (www.innocentive.com), and Nature Publishing Group (NPG), a scientific and medical publisher (www.nature.com), announced the launch of the Nature.com Open Innovation Pavilion. Jointly hosted on InnoCentive.com and Nature.com (www.nature.com/openinnovation) the Nature.com Open Innovation Pavilion provides a hub for scientific collaboration and open innovation.

Global Reset Series / by John Wilbanks / January 28, 2011The scientific paper has long been the unit of scientific knowledge. Now, with print media lapsing into obsolescence, the internet is poised to transform science publishing and science itself.

Program announcement from the National Science Foundation. "to enhance and expand the national resource of digital data documenting existing vouchered biological and paleontological collections and to advance scientific knowledge by improving access to digitized information (including images) residing in vouchered scientific collections across the United States. " Seeking proposals from academic, governmental and non-profit orgs.

Nature Publishing Group raised prices dramatically on Scientific American, with this consortium rejecting the offer

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'The established dogma is that freely-available scientific articles are cited more because they are read more,' said Davis. 'We found that openaccess publishing may reach more readers than subscription-access publishing, but there is no evidence that free

Isn't the web disruptive to sci publishing by nature?

WorldWideScience.org, a federated full-text database of scientific and technical research information published at least 70 cooperative countries, providing access to millions of deep web documents with only about a 4% overlap with general public search engines.

Formerly, the impact of authors and their scientific production was measured by the average citation frequencies of journals publishing their research: the Journal Impact Factor (JIF), calculated by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) in the United States and published annually in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR)-the most frequently used quantitative indicator to measure the quality/value/impact of research works published in the core international journals. It has been suggested that, by calculating the number of webpages pointing to a given site, analogously, a Web Impact Factor can be calculated as a way of comparing the attractiveness of sites or domains on the World Wide Web.

Elsevier Enriches Articles With Research Data Sets Elsevier and PANGAEA (Publishing Network for Geoscientific & Environmental Data) announced their next step in interconnecting the diverse elements of scientific research. Elsevier articles at ScienceDirect are now enriched with graphical information linking to associated research data sets that are deposited at PANGAEA.

"The combination of Elsevier's and Collexis' knowledge discovery technologies will create a powerful set of applications designed to support scientific management and assessment." Publishers are offering more and more tools, e.g. Thomson Reuter's InCites and SciVal.

In this paper we make the case for a scientific data publication model on top of linked data and introduce the notion of Research Objects as first class citizens for sharing and publishing.

Jan Velterop discusses a proposed solution to the plethora of scientific publications daunting new researchers and even established ones, pointing to "ʻnanopublicationsʼ6 as a method with which to extract assertions from published text as well as data collections, and subsequently using them to build an overall picture of the state and the dynamic development of knowledge in a given field."

web service that collects all scientific articles published by an author and displays their aggregate article-level metrics. ScienceCard allows a researcher to create and maintain a researcher profile with minimal effort, and to export and reuse this information elsewhere.

Discusses the prospects and limitations of digitial scholarship, particularly the for-profit nature of scholarly publishing and faculty resistance to new models

A preprint of an article submitted for publication urging changes to the scholarly journal publishing system. Much of the article reviews previous attempts at change: overlay journals (topical collections of disparate articles from various journals) have not seen widespread adoption; modified open access platforms such as PLOsONE seem to charge too much for what they are; postpublication services such as F1000. The authors propose a model to give authors of articles maximum control of their work and service providers "freedom to innovate"

Considers NY Times recent decision to make articles pay-per-view and contrasts with more open developments in scholarly publishing