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The fifth edition of the EFC Research Forum Stakeholders' Conference drilled down beyond the buzzword that "social innovation" has become in the corridors of public-benefit foundations and their partners in recent years by examining some key areas that are driving social innovation in research forward. Topics addressed included:   * The potential for foundations to spearhead socially innovative research * The impact of social media and networks on research * Open access and the challenge of quality assurance * Public participation in science: new modes of interaction

What is TEXTUS? In a nutshell it is an open source platform for working with collections of texts. It harnesses the power of semantic web technologies and delivers them in a simple and intuitive interface so that students, researchers and teachers can share and collaborate around collections of texts. TEXTUS is a project of the Open Knowledge Foundation.

Data Observation Network for Earth (DataONE) is the foundation of new innovative environmental science through a distributed framework and sustainable cyberinfrastructure that meets the needs of science and society for open, persistent, robust, and secure access to well-described and easily discovered Earth observational data.

The following post is by Andrew Magliozzi founder of FinalsClub.org and one of the developers working on the Annotator javascript library and the AnnotateIt service. Scholars, bring us your ancient, worn, and insightful annotations. We have the tools to help you collect and connect your knowledge of Plato, Dante, Shakespeare, Eliot and others.