What a year, 100+ solutions "built by researchers for researchers" in an STM platform and what an effort in the last two months of our team and the developers creating these solutions.
Many thanks to everyone -students, librarians, developers, researchers, scientists- in participating in this new ecosystem and bringing your innovations and solutions.
Happy 2012.
Just in case my wife took picture of this doubled parked van, so if it hits our car we know where to go
The first thing that Kim Jong Eun needs is a presidential haircut. 
Just stop by at Royal barber shop in East Village where all the barbers are from former Soviet Union
If you are interested in our new solutions that we've releasing continuously in Elsevier's applications marketplace check the apps gallery Thanks to all our developer community members!
Cameron Neylon provides concrete examples how STM publishers can get into the Google Wave. Cameron will be talking to a group of product managers and publishing colleagues next week in Amsterdam.
Some wave related links
"As traditional content and software publishers continue to try to wrestle the Web into one proprietary box after another to suit their established business models, it's important to remember that the world is aching to have cost-effective productivity improvements that will help to boost the global economy. Wave is a good example of a content technology that has the potential to sweep aside many drags on Web and enterprise productivity in ways that can help to create and to contextualize content in more valuable ways than ever before." John Blossom
"As I understand it each wave, and indeed each part of a wave, can be a URL endpoint; an object on the semantic web. If they aren’t already it will be easy to make them that. As much as anything it is the web native collaborative authoring tool that will make embedding and pass by reference the default approach rather than cut and past that will make the difference. Google don’t necessarily do semantic web but they do links and they do embedding, and they’ve provided a framework that should make it easy to add meaning to the links. Google just blew the door off the ELN market, and they probably didn’t even notice." Cameron Neylon
And yes we will see extension on the wave soon
"Having had a look at the editing capabilities of Google Wave, it is clear that one of the first things we as scientists should do is to add collaborative reference management and figure/table numbering to the rich text editing capabilities. Martin Fenner lists this feature on his blog post and we're discussing it at FriendFeed. Of course, collaborative editing doesn't stop at papers: grants, lab-wikis, institute websites, manuals, protocols, fridge content, who's up for journal club?, which machine is currently broken/working, where is item X?, who's going to the conference? Which posters are you going to look at?.... the list goes on and on! Google Wave has solutions for all of these processes - today." Bjoern Brembs
" I hope that by that time it will also have the first extensions designed specifically for scientists, e.g. for
James Evans article hits some interesting points. Discussion on the article at friendfeed
and here
"Online journals promise to serve more information to more dispersed audiences and are more efficiently searched and recalled. But because they are used differently than print—scientists and scholars tend to search electronically and follow hyperlinks rather than browse or peruse—electronically available journals may portend an ironic change for science. Using a database of 34 million articles, their citations (1945 to 2005), and online availability (1998 to 2005), I show that as more journal issues came online, the articles referenced tended to be more recent, fewer journals and articles were cited, and more of those citations were to fewer journals and articles. The forced browsing of print archives may have stretched scientists and scholars to anchor findings deeply into past and present scholarship. Searching online is more efficient and following hyperlinks quickly puts researchers in touch with prevailing opinion, but this may accelerate consensus and narrow the range of findings and ideas built upon."
After h-index, we now have w-index developed by Qiang Wu via Dean Guistini
myexperiment lets scientists share their research and scientific workflows.
If you are interested and trying to figure out applications in "scientific research workflow" watch these folks.
In a Newsweek interview Intel's former CEO Andy Grove calls for a "cultural revolution in research community" and hits on pharma industry's inefficiency and peer review system.
"The peer review system in grant making and in academic advancement has the major disadvantage of creating conformity of thoughts and values. It's a modern equivalent of a Middle Ages guild, where you have to sing a particular way to get grants, promotions and tenure. The pressure to conform [to prevailing ideas of what causes diseases and how best to find treatments for them] means you lose the people who want to get up and go in a different direction. There is no place for the wild ducks. The result is more sameness and less innovation. What we need is a cultural revolution in the research community, academic and non-academic. We need to give wild ducks the opportunity to emerge and quack their way to success. But cultural change can be driven only by action at the top." via NewsweekThis comment from Andy Grove reminded me of The Matthew Effect which Nassim Nicholas Taleb highlights in Black Swan:
"Academic success is partly (but significantly) a lottery.Now, that brings a completely different perspective to the whole citations searches and impact factor business.....
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