Global Knowledge Exchange.Net (GKEN)

STAR METRICS is a federal and university partnership which is developing an empirical framework to measure the outcomes of science investments and demonstrate the benefits of scientific investments to the public. The project is led by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the auspices of Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP).

Social networks are researched and lived (to a lesser degree). Will Vivo become the Facebook for scientists?

Excerpt; "In contrast to confirmatory analysis, which involves testing preconceived hypothesis, exploratory data analysis involves a broad investigation, a key component of which may be visual display. ... Today, there is tremendous potential for computational biologists, bioinformaticians, and related software developers to shape and direct scientific discovery by designing data visualization tools that facilitate exploratory analysis and fuel the cycle of ideas and experiments that gets refined into well-formed hypotheses, robust analyses, and confident results.""

A town hall meeting scheduled for 4/8/10, 2- 3.30 PM addresses accelerating sci-tech journal costs and insufficiency of open access efforts to date

Raises the question: Whats wrong with the scientific paper and the answer is quite blunt: the journal

DZero collaborators perform the data analysis for the experiment using a variety of computational resources, including Open Science Grid and EGEE. "Computing resources are playing a very important role in particle physics with many exciting results, including di-muon charge asymmetry, obtained with heavy use of grid," Denisov said.

the title should be: when will email be OUT?

Grading journals on how well they share information with readers will help deliver accountability to an industry that often lacks it.

By an overwhelming margin, technology experts and stakeholders participating in a survey fielded by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project and Elon University's Imagining the Internet Center believe that innovative forms of online cooperation could result in more efficient and responsive for-profit firms, non-profit organizations, and government agencies by the year 2020.

Scholarometer(beta) is a social tool to facilitate citation analysis and help evaluate the impact of an author's publications. Developed at Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing

Future of mobile monitoring of research?

According to the 2012 U.S. Book Consumer Demographics and Buying Behaviors Annual Review, if you were born between 1979 and 1989, you spent more money on books in 2011 than older Americans.

The development of ADS can be illustrative in how a digital library with linked, standardized metadata improves findability, enables creation of recommendation services and computational research.

Describes a survey instrument to demonstrate the importance of knowlege management, information sharing and collaboration for librarians

The OSG/CMU Scientific Software Ecosystem Workshop was held February 16 & 17, 2010 in Los Angeles, supported by the National Science Foundation through grant #0943168. It was an invitation workshop on scientific software development ecosystems, organized by the SciSoft research team at CMU (Jim Herbsleb and James Howison) and the Open Science Grid, hosted by LIGO at CalTech (special thanks to Kent Blackburn). The purpose of the workshop was to learn from each other in order to improve how we produce, share and sustain scientific software in our various fields and to develop positions regarding possible scientific research funding agency policies on software practices.

Notes from the symposium by Norman Oder -- Library Journal, 4/2/2010

Science is of significant importance to our society, but we understand very little of the processes that lead to scientific innovation. In this presentation I will provide an overview of our work on large-scale usage data as an early indicator of scientif