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Google is once again making progress in organising the world's information, this time by systematising the way scholarly citations are noted. Professor Patrick Dunleavy creates his Google Scholar profile and finds the process intuitive, helpful, and a welcome alternative to traditional measures of academic influence. .

Posted by Tom Kalil on March 29, 2012 at 09:23 AM EDT [Editor's Note: Watch the live webcast today at 2pm ET of the Big Data Research and Development event athttp://live.science360.gov/bigdata/ ] Today, the Obama Administration is announcing the "Big Data Research and Development Initiative."

"Unlike many journals which attempt to use the peer review process to determine whether or not an article reaches the level of 'importance' required by a given journal, PLoS ONE uses peer review to determine whether a paper is technically sound and worthy of inclusion in the published scientific record. Once the work is published in PLoS ONE, the broader community is then able to discuss and evaluate the significance of the article (through the number of citations it attracts; the downloads it achieves; the media and blog coverage it receives; and the post-publication Notes, Comments and Ratings that it receives on PLoS ONE etc)."

"So I thought it might be useful to post a summary of the current state of open access. There's a lot going on, so even though this essay appears lengthy, it's actually a very brief and incomplete summary of what's happening. I have links to further reading at the end."

I have been the position where some people know me both offline and online. It seems to me that digital professionalism is management speak for something we do as a matter of course. I have always considered myself an introvert, which may or may not come as a surprise to those of you who only know me on Twitter or through my blog.