Opening up for ideas: Article 2.0

After Grand Prize here comes Article 2.0. I agree with Paul Miller that seeing an idea using Talis platform will be great.

Stanford follows Harvard's "open-access" mandate

" Faculty members grant to the Stanford University permission to make publicly available their scholarly articles and to exercise the copyright in those articles. They grant to Stanford University a nonexclusive, irrevocable, worldwide license to exercise any and all rights under copyright relating to their scholarly articles, in any medium, and to authorize others to do the same, provided that the articles are properly attributed to the authors not sold for a profit.

The policy will apply to all scholarly articles authored or co-authored while a faculty member of the School of Education, beginning with articles for which the publisher's copyright agreement has yet to be signed. The Dean or the Dean's designate will waive application of the policy upon written request from faculty who wish to publish an article with a publisher who will not agree to the terms of this policy (which will be presented to the publishers in the form of an addendum to the copyright agreement).

No later than the date of publication, faculty members will provide an electronic copy of the final version of the article at no charge to the appropriate representative of the Dean of Education's Office, who will make the article available to the public in an open-access repository operated by Stanford University." via DigitalKoans

AFP new platform will include text mining and semantic search

Agence France Press will launch a new platform by end of 2008 using Temis, Mondeca and Antidot's technologies. Congrat to my friends at Temis getting this important deal. via EarthTimes

Microsoft acquires Powerset

After MedStory this time Microsoft acquires Powerset. Via Venture Beat
Microsoft is building the right combination, will SiloBreaker be next?

AP: It seems that this is not a done deal yet

When it's over, it's over

and it was great effort by the Turks but now there are more important issues to decide like what to do with AKP.

" Germany celebrated the victory, but so much credit must go to Turkey for a magnificent effort that deserved so much more." via BBC

This match deserves a break for the afternoon

"Soccer in Turkey, which hasn't lost a match against Germany since 1992, ``is a machine designed to fuel nationalism and xenophobia,'' Turkey's Nobel Prize-winning novelist, Orhan Pamuk, told news magazine Der Spiegel on June 2." Via Bloomberg

Biolit: Enhancing scientific articles for life scientists

"BioLit aims to extract database identifiers and rich meta-data from open access articles in the life sciences and integrate that information with existing biological databases.

The future of scientific article

"scientific paper of the future will be a work in progress — with different people with different skills and talents contributing to a body of work sequentially: one has the idea, another turns it into a hypothesis, another designs the experiments, another runs them, another analyzes the data, another visualizes them, another interprets them, another places several such pieces of work together into a historical and philosophical context and finishes writing the "paper". The bits and pieces of it are independently searchable and citable and they are all interconnected by links until the final version is put all together in one place. After all, science as the work of a lonely genius is pretty much a myth — it has been, for the most part, a very collective endeavor. The readers of the paper then keep adding their commentary, links to subsequent "papers," blog posts, media articles, etc. The unity of the paper — a single date, journal, volume, issue, page —
will be gone. All of science will become interdisciplinary and interconnected. "

Bora Zivlokic Online Community Manager for PLoS ONE , Journal of Science Communication

Another milestone for Elsevier and scientific community

Today, ScienceDirect has over 9, 000, 000 articles. As my colleague Paul indicated late last night "SD counter" was at 8,999,991 on 00:16 AM CET on Friday 20 June. Congratulations to everyone who contributed to this milestone.

Platfoms continue to open up

ebay opening up its site to developers via Project Echo


" Like other online apps that have become platforms, such as Salesforce.com and Facebook, eBay's new initiative, called Project Echo, will give developers not just access to rich data they can package up for customers, but also a marketing channel for their applications." Via WebWare

Turn the email off for few hours everyday

As Times graph shows we are not thinking enough everyday. Only 12% of our time is spent for thinking and reflecting. Microsoft, Intel, Google and I.B.M., and other technology companies formed a group to solve information overload. I have been trying this "quite time" technique for a while, and I strongly recommend it.

The future of research libraries and Google

"As a citadel of learning and as a platform for adventure on the Internet, the research library still deserves to stand at the center of the campus, preserving the past and accumulating energy for the future." Robert Darnton's essay "The Library in the New Age" for the New York Review of Books.

Scientists and FriendFeed

Cameron Neylon explains how scientists are using this service to collaborate....

Dialog's journey from Lockheed to ProQuest

Proquest acquires Dialog from Thomson-Reuters. Logical move by Proquest in terms of expanding its content portfolio. Plenty of opportunities for ProQuest to leverage all these new content sources and distribution channel.

Assessing Scientific Research and Citation Analysis

A thoughtful report " about the use and misuse of citation data in the assessment of scientific research."

"We do not dismiss citation statistics as a tool for assessing the quality of research—citation data and statistics can provide some valuable information. We recognize that assessment must be practical, and for this reason easily‐derived citation statistics almost surely will be part of the process. But citation data provide only a limited and incomplete view of research quality, and the statistics derived from citation data are sometimes poorly understood and misused. Research is too important to measure its value with only a single coarse tool."

Selling and promoting scientific content through video

EPA is listening to its users

"EPA is holding an on-line discussion among state, tribe, and other federal partners of EPA, as well as the public to foster collaboration on information access. For this discussion, we are using a blog which is a more interactive and personal form of technology. Everyone is invited to use this site to identify and share their best resources, tools, and ideas for improving access to EPA’s environmental information. This is a key part of the National Dialogue on Access to Environmental Information – working with you to enhance information access."

This is another good example of using groundswell for research and development. Via Christina Liss

What is fip?

Britannica opening-up for more participation from scholars

Assessing Researcher's impact

After h-index, we now have w-index developed by Qiang Wu via Dean Guistini

Involving users in product development a la Google

Scholarz.net helping researchers

"scholarz.net is an online-software for better research and academic writing. It offers reference management, knowledge organisation, social knowledge and research community"

The company was started off as a project at University of Wuerzburg

Bibliographic Ontology

Image via WikipediaFrom the people of Zitgist here comes Bibliographic Ontology 1.0

"The Bibliographic Ontology Specification provides main concepts and properties for describing citations and bibliographic references (i.e. quotes, books, articles, etc) on the Semantic Web."

The use of these kind of applications will create "smarter content" in STM publishing

Open up and and bring the creativity of the scientific community

Follow the discussion which was started by Deepak about "Elsevier Grand Challenge" in friendsfeed, the wiki summary of the challenge was created by Pawel

Bring in 'Da Collaboration

Knowledge Enhancements in Life Sciences

Elsevier's Grand Challenge

"While the traditional functions of peer-review, quality control, dissemination and archiving remain at the heart of scientific publishing, it is clear that new technologies are creating opportunities to facilitate interpretation of data. In initiating the Elsevier Grand Challenge, we hope to interact with the scientific community to discuss changing modes of publishing and knowledge sharing with innovative groups who are interested in changing the way science is published. The objective is to generate useful new ideas that could have a widespread impact on scientific publishing in general. "

Thomson's Calais (ClearForest) in Action

Linkedfacts is the work of Stefan Podrowinski