A research paper considers new scientists' publishing and presentation activities using blogs, websites, and social media in the context of the scientific publishing enterprise.
A new publishing platform to showcase the best of that online work. It's called PressForward. And its creators-the same people who developed the academic-research platforms Zotero and Omeka-hope to take advantage of the interactive Web but preserve elements of scholarly review.
What was highly significant, however, was the pace of discussion and analysis, carried out in real time on blogs and a wiki that had been quickly set up for the purpose of collectively analyzing the paper. This kind of collaboration has emerged only in recent years in the math and computer science communities. In the past, intense discussions like the one that surrounded the proof of the Poincaré conjecture were carried about via private e-mail and distribution lists as well as in the pages of traditional paper-based science journals.
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Registration of ideas, data or other outputs for the purpose of assigning credit and priority to the right people is high on everyone's list.
The ability to re-use, replicate, and re-purpose outputs very highly as well. It would need to enable and support public and stakeholder engagement. The the system will support discovery and filtering tools so that users can find the content they are looking for in a huge and diverse volume of available material.
From the Aspen Ideas Festival, a panel discussion on how to use digital media to lower barriers to education, identifying the types of teaching processes that lend themselves best to such media and other opportunities at the crossroad of technologies and
JISC study form OCLC, RIN and JISC survey data on digital library user behavior, highlights disciplinary differences in e-research and reliance upon Google