Tuesday, 12 February 2008

sharing science online



Sharing Science Online

Via The Chronicle of Higher Education:

Tired of 'Science by Press Release'? Try Science by Blog

A group of science bloggers has created a site that allows

researchers to share blog posts about peer-reviewed research in one

place.

ResearchBlogging.org, launched yesterday, is essentially a blog

aggregator. Blogging academics (or, apparently, laymen interested

in peer-reviewed research) register their blogs with the site.

Bloggers can flag certain posts they write about peer-reviewed

research by inserting a snippet of code. These posts then appear on

the main page of the site, replete with proper academic citation.

The idea, writes co-creator Dave Munger, is to allow researchers to

learn about new peer-reviewed research without relying on press

releases or news reports.

[...]

also, via WIRED:

Google to Host Terabytes of Open-Source Science Data

Sources at Google have disclosed that the humble domain,

http://research.google.com, will soon provide a home for terabytes

of open-source scientific datasets. The storage will be free to

scientists and access to the data will be free for all. The

project, known as Palimpsest and previewed to the scientific

community at the Science Foo camp at the Googleplex last August,

missed its original launch date this week, but will debut soon.


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