Seed Media Group...Founder and CEO, Adam Bly, announced a number of new initiatives and innovations in scientific communication during a keynote speech at the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) Annual Meeting in Baltimore, Maryland. One of Seed's principal assets is Scienceblogs.com....
Bly officially launched a new Information Science channel on ScienceBlogs for the 10,000 librarians who regularly visit the site. The new channel will feature several prominent librarian-bloggers and information scientists and will focus on open access and open science, digital and print publishing, intellectual property and ownership, data visualization, and other revolutions in information science.
Bly previewed the new version of ResearchBlogging to SSP attendees. The software from Seed Technology connects scientific papers to scientific blogs, enabling researchers to make use of the unique and timely information about current science in the blogosphere. The new version of ResearchBlogging includes support for citation data from both ArXiv (an electronic archive for scientific papers) and PubMed (a search engine provided by the US National Library of Medicine for accessing Life Sciences citations, abstracts and articles) and streamlined citation generation.
Bly unveiled RB Connect, a new service that enables scientific publishers to link articles to aggregated blog posts from ResearchBlogging. RB Connect will be launched on the websites of PLoS One from the Public Library of Science, the pioneering open access publisher, and the Royal Society (Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge), the British scientific society and publisher founded in 1660....
PS: Apparently RB Connect doesn't yet have a web site. If I'm just overlooking it, please drop me a line.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 6/01/2009 03:01:00 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.
