NLM Technical Bulletin, May–Jun 2006, Technical Notes
.."In upcoming months, searchers may encounter options designed to lead them to additional Entrez resources. Currently, searchers can find a link on the Abstract display that will take them to a new version of that format."..
29 Jun 2006
28 Jun 2006
27 Jun 2006
Diffusion of Science
The Digital Road to Scientific Knowledge Diffusion: A Faster, Better Way to Scientific Progress?
The process by which science knowledge is spread is called diffusion. It is therefore important to better understand and measure the benefits of this diffusion of knowledge. In particular, it is important to understand whether advances in Internet searching – such as simultaneous, ranked searching of distributed digital collections made broadly available via the Internet – can speed up the diffusion of scientific knowledge and accelerate scientific progress.
23 Jun 2006
22 Jun 2006
Nothing Happens Really
Nothing Happens Really - -=( In Between )=-
"While a large number of new tools have appeared on the scene, like RSS feeds, semantic-web-like technologies and social software, not much has been done to redefine library information in local systems in order to make them globally useful".
20 Jun 2006
19 Jun 2006
Campfire
Business group chat: Campfire
Campfire lets you set up password-protected web-based chat rooms in just seconds.
MarkaBoo
MarkaBoo :: better bookmarks for everyone
MarkaBoo makes it easy organize your data and share it with others.
Orkut Invitations
Hello, I am member of ORKUT Community. Please let me know by send an email [esukhdev AT gmail DOT com] if you need an invitation for it.
eHealth Literacy
Journal of Medical Internet Research - eHealth Literacy: Essential Skills for Consumer Health in a Networked World
eHealth Literacy: Essential Skills for Consumer Health in a Networked World
16 Jun 2006
RapidShare
RapidShare - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
RapidShare is a One-click_hosting. The site operates from Germany and is financed by Google AdSense and by the subscriptions of paying users. It also claims to be the world's largest in its scope.
CamStudio
CamStudio - Free Screen Recording Software
Came to know about CamStudio from The Distant Librarian: CamStudio - Free Screencasting Software Post.
CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using it's built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs)
Came to know about CamStudio from The Distant Librarian: CamStudio - Free Screencasting Software Post.
Steps to Professional Blogging
Randy Charles Morin suggests Ten Steps to Professional Blogging
-Determine what you want to blog about
-Register a blog with Blogger
-Create a FeedBurner account
-Write 1+ blog entries everyday
-Read other blogs like yours
-Register for a del.icio.us account
-Leave 1+ comments everyday
-Register for an AdSense account
-Don't give up
-Check your stats and refine
15 Jun 2006
Xena
Xena digital preservation software
Open Source Digital Preservation Software from the
National Archives of Australia
Ruby
Ruby Home Page - What's Ruby
Ruby is the interpreted scripting language for quick and easy object-oriented programming.
Rails
Ruby on Rails
Rails is a full-stack framework for developing database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Control pattern.
TeamWork Live
TeamWork Live - Team Collaboration, Project Management, Group Communication, and File Sharing
TeamWork Live is a web-based application that makes it easy for groups to communicate, collaborate, and share information with each other.
14 Jun 2006
Impact Factor Manipulations
WSJ.com - Science Journals Artfully Try To Boost Their Rankings
..Scientists and editors say scientific journals increasingly are manipulating rankings..
Technorati Tags: Impact Factor
WEB 2.0: Addressing the permanence issue
blyberg.net » Addressing the permanence issue
..As libraries, we are far more concerned about longevity of data and content than commercial entities. The major difference being that when a company goes belly-up, they no longer care what happens to their data. They will either destroy it or sell it to the highest bidder where who-knows-what will happen to it..
Technorati Tags: WEB 2.0, Library 2.0
Sidenotes
arc90 lab : tools : Unobtrusive Sidenotes
Unobtrusive Sidenotes is a simple mix of Javascript and CSS that makes it ridiculously easy to incorporate sidenotes into your web pages or blogs.
13 Jun 2006
ThinkFree - Hosted Office Suite
ThinkFree Online beta offers 1 GB of free storage space and allows you to work with Office compatible online packages.
12 Jun 2006
Peer-Review is Dead – Long Live “Peer-Review 2.0”
Before an article gets published in a traditional scholarly journal – Print or Online – it undergoes a quality-check process called Peer Review. But this process does have some drawbacks. First one is that it is time-consuming process. Which adds to the delay in publication. Such a delay could be very significant if research results could be used to immediate problems – for example ‘avian flu’. Second drawback is that it could add to the “biases” as quality control is in the hands of two or three peer-reviewers.
Interactive nature of Internet has offered scholarly journals to experiment with peer-review process. "Nature" for example is undertaking an open peer review trial. In this trial, authors whose submissions to Nature are sent for peer review will also be offered the opportunity to participate in an open peer review process. In this three month trial, authors can choose to have their submissions posted on a preprint server for open comments, in parallel with the conventional peer review process.
Now an Open Access Publisher - Public Library of Science is coming up with PLoS ONE . It claims to offer a new approach to the way that scientific research is communicated. It will “identify” papers that are technically sound and publish them “rapidly”. These will be presented for open and continuous review to whole scientific community. They believe that published papers are not some form of absolute truth but part of an ongoing discussion. Interestingly their PloS ONE site is subtitled “Open Access 2.0”.
BMJ also has been trying to answer problems of traditional peer review [see its editorial - Peer review: reform or revolution? Time to open up the black box of peer review. It also has a RAPID RESPONSES feature which enables readers to comment on published articles.
Interactive nature of Internet has offered scholarly journals to experiment with peer-review process. "Nature" for example is undertaking an open peer review trial. In this trial, authors whose submissions to Nature are sent for peer review will also be offered the opportunity to participate in an open peer review process. In this three month trial, authors can choose to have their submissions posted on a preprint server for open comments, in parallel with the conventional peer review process.
Now an Open Access Publisher - Public Library of Science is coming up with PLoS ONE . It claims to offer a new approach to the way that scientific research is communicated. It will “identify” papers that are technically sound and publish them “rapidly”. These will be presented for open and continuous review to whole scientific community. They believe that published papers are not some form of absolute truth but part of an ongoing discussion. Interestingly their PloS ONE site is subtitled “Open Access 2.0”.
BMJ also has been trying to answer problems of traditional peer review [see its editorial - Peer review: reform or revolution? Time to open up the black box of peer review. It also has a RAPID RESPONSES feature which enables readers to comment on published articles.
There are some extreme views also to do away the “Peer-Review” as such. In a pitch for Wikipedia Concept, Peter Frishauf [Are Traditional Peer-Reviewed Medical Articles Obsolete? A Pitch for the Wikipedia Concept, -Reguires Free Registration] argues, “ we depend on peer-reviewed articles in print and online. But is this method obsolete? And is there a better way? Traditional medical articles are often outdated before publication. Consider HIV, SARs, avian flu -- even hormone replacement therapy. They're not comprehensive: For any topic, we have to read dozens of articles to be informed. And bias is always present, regardless of peer review… Based on a radical new model of publishing, on Wikipedia nearly anyone with a Web connection can start or edit an article. Contributors must agree to write in neutral point of view (NPV). Opinion is fair game for deletion by the first Wikipedian who reads it -- typically within 30 seconds of publication.”
What ever it takes – the era of “Post-Publication Peer Review” has begun. I wish to call it “Peer-Review 2.0”.
myGrid: an e-Science toolkit for bioinformaticians
SourceForge.net: myGrid e-science toolkit
myGrid: an e-Science toolkit for bioinformaticians, comprising Web Services that provide data and semantic metadata management, workflow and service discovery, and e-science process orchestration.
Indibloggers
IndiBloggers - Index of Indian Bloggers Came to know about this from Mohamed Taher. However does not seem to be comprehensive as His and Mine blogs were not there in the list.
Pligg
Pligg Beta
Pligg is Web 2.0 Content Management System (CMS) unlike any other existing CMS. Pligg's Web 2.0 user interface gives your visitors a reason to come back to your site by making them decide on the site's content and giving them the chance to social network.
9 Jun 2006
Hubdog Toolbar
Hubdog :: Add RSS channels to your Pocket PC via IE or Firefox !
Hubdog Toolbar: generate Online and Mobile media channels by aggregating any content feed available on the web
How Long Will America Lead the World?
Zakaria: How Long Will America Lead the World? - Leadership and Innovation - MSNBC.com
.."The national academies' report points out that China and India combined graduate 950,000 engineers every year, compared with 70,000 in America; that for the cost of one chemist or engineer in the U.S. a company could hire five chemists in China or 11 engineers in India; that of the 120 $1 billion-plus chemical plants being built around the world one is in the United States and 50 are in China.."
8 Jun 2006
7 Jun 2006
Business models in open access publishing
Business models in open access publishing by Cockerill, Matthew. In "Open Access: Key strategic, technical and economic aspects" Neil Jacobs (ed.) (forthcoming) -
Draws a parallel between open access and open government.
Draws a parallel between open access and open government.
Google Spreadsheets
According to Google Blog, Google Spreadsheets is now available as a limited test on Google Labs. This will allow users to create, store and share spreadsheets on the web.
6 Jun 2006
Changing nature of librarianship
LIScareer.com -- The Librarian & Information Professional's Career Development Center
.."The beauty of librarianship lies in its ever changing nature, and we must change with it."
Social softwares - Power Law of Participation
Ross Mayfield's Weblog: Power Law of Participation
"..Patterns have emerged where low threshold participation amounts to collective intelligence and high engagement provides a different form of collaborative intelligence.."
Year of OPML
Top 10 Sources
"2006 has been called the "Year of OPML," and from the amount of attention it's been receiving lately in the blogosphere, that seems believable. OPML, which stands for Outline Processing Markup Language, is a way of describing collections of links to the Web as an outline".
Cool on a Budget - Library 2.0?
Online Cool on a Budget by Rachel Singer Gordon and Michael Stephens explains how new online tools make it easy and cheap for letting your library show its best side and appear as dynamic. They suggest libraies to try blogs, Flickr, del.icio.us, Google Maps and building wikis. Further libraries can use social networking plateforms like MySpace or Facebook.
Well are they suggesting Library 2.0?
Well are they suggesting Library 2.0?
5 Jun 2006
BRICKS
BRICKS - Building resources for Integrated Cultural Knowledge Services
The BRICKS Community is the aggregation of a large community of users, composed of content providers, art professionals, and art researchers, as well as students, citizens, tourists, etc. in order to build a consensus, sharing knowledge and service on Digital Content.
Congratulations NIT Rourkela (India) for having OA Archiving Policy
Congratulations NIT Rourkela (India) for OA Self-Archiving Policy.
"All research papers by faculty and students, MTech (Research) and Ph.D. thesis is to be self-archived in Dspace@nitr or it should be submitted to the librarian for archiving, so that others interested may benefit by referring to these documents. The Administration may
use this archive for assessment of faculty performance when needed."
"All research papers by faculty and students, MTech (Research) and Ph.D. thesis is to be self-archived in Dspace@nitr or it should be submitted to the librarian for archiving, so that others interested may benefit by referring to these documents. The Administration may
use this archive for assessment of faculty performance when needed."
Online journals publishing practices - ALPSP Survey
"The market for online journals is still in a process of development and experiment; it is only ten years old. Publishers are still grappling with the implications of migrating from a print to an online publishing environment." Academic journal publishers' policies and practices in online publishing - Second Survey, 2005. -ALPSP
2 Jun 2006
Consensus is difficult in open-access debate
OPEN ACCESS Special Issue of Research Information carries interviews of following experts on Open Access and its future:
- Martin Richardson, Oxford Journals
- Michael Mabe, formerly of Elsevier
- Robert Terry, The Wellcome Trust
- Steven Harnad, University of Quebec in Montreal and University of Southampton
- Tim Smith, Institute of Physics Publishing
- Matthew Cockerill, BioMed Central
- Alma Swan, Key Perspectives
- Jens Vigen, CERN
- Leslie Carr, University of Southampton
Consensus is difficult in open-access debate it seems. Or the publishing industry fears lose of business?
1 Jun 2006
Come Xplore
Complore-Come Xplore.
Complore is a Social Research Collaboration Tool to connect the researchers in diverse fields around the world.
InstantFeed
InstantFeed - Feeds via your IM client can make you Big in Japan!
InstantFeed allows you to receive any web feed (RSS or Atom) via all major IM carriers including MSN Messenger, Jabber, AIM and ICQ.
Toolbar will also suggest bookmarks
Google Toolbar beta will now also suggest sites that you have bookmarked.
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