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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.

"SAGE Research Methods Online (SRMO) is a tool to support your research needs as you design, select and apply a method. Containing over 100,000 pages of book, journal and reference content from leading SAGE authors, SRMO supports independent researchers at all levels."

the Memento Project led by Herbert Van De Sompel adds a time stamp to web pages and allows searching with time preferences.

The Journal of Academic Librarianship Volume 36, Issue 6, November 2010, Pages 495-500

Conference taking place at Rice University, February 27-28, 2012. Speaker bios and abstracts available at the conference page.

The 34 page report on key challenges and recommendations to NSF on "Digital Research Data Sharing and Management" was released for comment on December 14, 2011. Comments accepted through January 18, 2012.

Microsoft Research Connections and UKOLN, University of Bath, are working in partnership on an exciting and challenging new project to develop a Community Model for Data-Intensive Science.

eScience and open access to data chapter by den Besten, P. David and Ralph Schroeder

Partnering to Publish: Innovative Roles for Societies, Institutions, Presses, and Libraries

"The 116-page report represents a 2-year effort with the sponsorship and support of the U.S. National Science Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Library of Congress (LC), the U.K. Joint Information Systems Committee, the Electronic Records Archives Program of the National Archives and Records Administration, and the Council on Library and Information Resources. On April 1, the Task Force will hold a symposium in Washington, D.C., followed by another on May 6 in the U.K." _Barbara Quint, InformationToday

This article from Inside Higher Ed includes a link to a 116 page pdf report by the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access.