Thanksgiving 2008

Alon is searching for turkey in Cheburechnaya at Queens where you can enjoy a great Uzbeki cuisine with plenty of kebabs.

BMJ introduces community and networking site

BMJ launches Doc2Doc via Bertalan

"doc2doc was set up to improve the working lives of doctors by providing an independent place where doctors can talk freely."

Bringing Lenses to Search using Yahoo Boss

Yahoo Search team continues to rock. Here are few more sites powered by Yahoo Boss: getthepicture, delver, Techcrunch

I believe that Yahoo has one of the most creative search teams in the search industry and they have been executing what Jeff Weiner stated in 2007:

"Our goal is to tie these underlying stores of knowledge together wherever and whenever it might be useful for you. In other words, we want to leverage our assets to build the most relevant, comprehensive, dynamic, and open repository of knowledge and content on the Web. One of the things we’re most excited about is the concept of “open,” and all of the potential we have yet to tap by opening up some of the most trafficked pages on Yahoo.com to the highest quality publishers on the Web, regardless of their size."

"The promise of peer review"

"It is ironic that, in an era known for the great speed and availability of information – where we could choose to blog our results rather than submit them to journals – publishing papers seems slower and more painful than ever before" Vivian Siegel, Editor-in-Chief, Disease Models and Mechanism

Changing face of Elsevier

As Wouter posts opening up is important for us. I believe that this "change" will have a huge impact for "accelerating science" and "helping scientists do science better. That's one of the reasons that I am proud working for Elsevier and be part of a product development team that will launch some great solutions in the coming months.

Opening up : Elsevier's Article 2.0

is listed at programmableweb

A real "workflow" solution: BrainNavigator

BrainNavigator is a new product that we are unveiling at SfN. This was developed in partnership with the Allen Institute for Brain Science. Elsevier Labs and Elsevier Book Publishing division have done a great work on this.

As my colleague Johannes Menzel states "BrainNavigator will change the way Neuroscience research is conducted".

In STM online publishing the buzz has been around "workflow". If you really want to see a workflow solution, you need to check this product out. BrainNavigator is one of the best examples of the workflow solution for researchers.

Accelerating Science Openly

Congratulations to Jean Claude Bradley and his co-authors Khalid Baig Mirza, Tom Osborne, Antony Wiliams, Kevin Owens for publishing in JOVE.

"..... we have demonstrated that it is possible carry out research under Open Notebook Science conditions, write an article openly on a wiki, post it on a pre-print server (like Nature Precedings) and finally publish it in an peer reviewed journal. No, this won't work with every publisher. But if communicating science openly (beyond the confines of the regular Open Access model) is important to you, there are options out there that don't take anything away from the traditional system of academic validation." UsefulChem.

This kind of innovative initiatives and creative scientists make scientific publishing business exciting, and an industry that you want to be in.

ACC moves into social media with Blog Summit

ACC's plastic blog summit "is focused on the role of plastics in U.S. efforts to save energy through contributions to energy-efficient products, processes, and innovations. Our goal is to bring together influential voices from inside and outside of industry to help communicate to a larger audience in new and different ways."ACC

Future lies in Application Platforms

Steve Balmer on application store concept:

"I actually will agree that there's some good work, particularly at Facebook and also with the iPhone, where both of those companies have made it easier for developers to distribute their applications,"

"They've made it easier to kind of get exposure for your applications,There's not much money being made, but the general concept of giving developers a way not only to get their code distributed, but to really get visibility for the code, is a good idea." cnet

"Google Scholar: An outcast in the Library world"?

"The first step is accepting that library users
are not seeking perfection, but simplicity –
which is what Scholar offers. By promoting and
working with such tools, libraries are acknowledging
that they recognize what users want and
need from the library system." by Me Linh He

Defrosting Google Scholar, PubMed, WoS, Scopus and other digital libraries

"If the market will not provide scientists with the services they require, at a price they are willing to pay, they need to build and fund them themselves. The danger is that too much electronic infrastructure will be owned and run by private companies, and science will then be no better served than it was with paper-based publishing" "Defrosting the Digital Library: Bibliographic Tools for the Next Generation Web"

A new Application MarketPlace brought by LinkedIn

Smart move by LinkedIn by opening up to outside applications in their new Application Marketplace