Postgenomic tracks the biomedical papers being discussed by bloggers, identifies the most-discussed papers and journals, and shows what kinds of researchers are discussing what kinds of papers. (Thanks to Richard Ackerman.) Excerpt:
Postgenomic collates posts from life science blogs and then does useful and interesting things with that data. For example, you can see which papers are being cited most often by neurologists, or which stories are being heavily linked to by bioinformaticians. It's sort of like a hot papers meeting with the entire biomed blogging community. Sort of.
Comment. As serious blogging grows in biomedicine, the usefulness of this site will grow exponentially. Long term, its usefulness could become both a cause and effect of that growth in blogging. Every field should have an equivalent.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 3/04/2006 12:20:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
