Madoff effect in research institutions

Bernie Madoff comes like another bad topping to the current economic conditions effecting all the research institutions


Madoff hour
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It's all about opening up:Idiomag Widget

Google ends its scientific datasets service

Google ends its experiment with Google Research Datasets that was going to provide scientists a way to store large amount of datasets.

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Eigenfactor for ranking journals and mapping science

Eigenfactor and Article Influence were developed by Carl Bergstrom and his team at Washington University. Great initiative.

Elsevier Grand Challenge Rocks

A full day of creativity from scientists all over the globe showing us the amazing applications that they can develop to "accelerate science" once the content is "opened up".

Open-up the usage data

Library Services at the University of Huddersfield has released a major portion of their book circulation and recommendation data under an Open Data Commons/CC0 licence. This is great attempt to analyze usage data and create additional services/products based on this. via Dave Pattern

Finally a ROI calculation for investing in library resources

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's return on the university's investment in its library.

Paula Kaufman's study is a good read for anyone who is questioning their investment in library resources.

Impact (humour) factor

by Jorge Cham at PHD comics,

now we need something for h-index....

Microsoft's first Jim Gray award goes to Carol Goble

Carol Goble receives Jim Gray e-science award.

Times Widgets

While the company is struggling financially, it's good to see that the tech and product team are not living in a "bunker" mentality

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Penguin's iphone Application

Penguin's exciting moves.

"Science is the ultimate Remix"

"We need to find ways to make sharing research results and tools easy, trackable, and useable by scientists on a day-to-day basis. Science Commons is working on these problems in a way that few other projects contemplate: they don’t write papers, they release “running code” like contracts for sharing biological materials and open contracts for biological tools like stem cells and genetically modified mice." Richard Bookman

Semantic web in action

Computer Science base show how you can turn facts into knowledge using Freebase platform

Mashing up Science Amazon Way

Deepak announced Amazon's Amazon Public Data Sets program. This is another good initiative for "open data" and for scientists