Global Knowledge Exchange.Net (GKEN)

Some now predict that PLoS ONE's model will become the dominant one for scholarly journals. OA advocate Cameron Neylon, for instance, predicted that in future "most scholarly publishing will be in publication venues that place no value on a subjective assessment of 'importance'

Open Society Foundations funded project that aims to facilitate a conversation between researchers, their funders, and developers about what we mean by the "impact" of research and how we can make its measurement more reliable, more useful, and more accepted by the research community

professional learning network for teachers and educators

(auditorium sessions are being broadcasted)

Well-behaved document (user and IM friendly) and other posters

and good discussion in comments.

Report commissioned by the Publishing Research Consortium

report notes the growth of published papers at a rate of 20% a year and new open access journals at around 15% per year, credited to the increased ease of digital publishing

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 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"

A contest to develop applications for Elsevier's Sciverse platform to be held in Troy, NY 6/27-28/11

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.