New Channels For Scientific Communication

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A brief introduction to some of the new web services scientists are using to communicate with each other and with the public.

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What “Web 2.0” may mean for science

Bonnie J. M. Swoger ’99Milne Library, SUNY Geneseo

What’s new…

(Facebook)

myExperiment.org

PLoS ONE

Nature Precedings

ScienceBlogs.com

Connotea (del.icio.us

)Nature Network

For additional descriptions, see this webpage.

Open data Tools become more valuable as more

people contribute Ease of communicating with people

you know (and people you don’t know)

Making connections Data becomes more valuable as

more folks contribute Credit and priority Peer Review Impact of informal communication on

tenure and promotion Retrieving this information

• Archiving blog posts, comments, ratings

See the August, 2007 issue of CTWatch Quarterly • www.ctwatch.org (open access)

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