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Scirus.com Search Engine. Microsoft Academic Search. CiteSeerX. Ranking of Open Online Repositories. PubMed Central. Social Science Research Network (SSRN) Home Page. ArXiv.org e-Print archive.

Mendeley. The ORCID Researcher Identification Program. Zotero. Science Commons. (For even more information on our history and organizational structure, click here.)

Science Commons

There are petabytes of research data being produced in laboratories around the world, but the best web search tools available can’t help us make sense of it. Why? Because more stands between basic research and meaningful discovery than the problem of search. Many scientists today work in relative isolation, left to follow blind alleys and duplicate existing research. Data are fragmented — trapped behind firewalls, locked up by contracts or lost in databases that can’t be accessed or integrated. The consequences in many cases are no less than tragic. Science Commons has three interlocking initiatives designed to accelerate the research cycle — the continuous production and reuse of knowledge that is at the heart of the scientific method.

WikiMatrix: Compare Wiki Platforms. Nowadays many companies use wiki platforms (aka wikis) as a collaboration tool within their enterprise.

WikiMatrix: Compare Wiki Platforms

But with so many available wikis online it can become overwhelming to choose the one that suits your needs (easy of use, free/paid, feature set etc) WikiMatrix make the task easy and lets you compare wiki platforms in one place. You can compare wikis from the list side by side, or find a Wiki that matches your personal needs by answering few questions in the Wiki Choice Wizard. Scientific Data Sharing Project. While many data sharing programs exist worldwide, widespread sharing of raw data has not yet won across-the-board acceptance in the scientific community, and the very existence of all these databases makes the approach fractured at best.

Scientific Data Sharing Project

The Data Sharing Project, launched last year by University of California-San Francisco Professor Michael Weiner, has two goals: One is to make widespread raw data sharing a reality — initially in the realm of medicine — through creation of a repository system accessible to all researchers; the second goal is to foster broad scientific support for this move and its adoption in other fields of research. Open Notebook Science. History[edit] The term "open notebook science"[6] was first used in a blog post by Jean-Claude Bradley, an Associate Professor of Chemistry at Drexel University.

Open Notebook Science

Bradley described open notebook science as follows:[7] ... there is a URL to a laboratory notebook that is freely available and indexed on common search engines. It does not necessarily have to look like a paper notebook but it is essential that all of the information available to the researchers to make their conclusions is equally available to the rest of the world—Jean-Claude Bradley Practitioners[edit] Active[edit] Experimental[edit] Directory of Open Access Journals. Liquid Publications: Scientific Publications meet the Web — LiquidPub Project. Knowledgeblog Project. Enabling a lightweight publishing process by use of Wordpress and associated plugins.

knowledgeblog Project

Plugins written for the project, along with some documentation are hosted here. From our website: Welcome to Knowledge Blog. We are investigating a new, light-weight way of publishing scientific, academic and technical knowledge on the web. The Problem Scientific and academic publishing is a painful process for authors, reviewers and readers alike. Annotum. OpenRePub. PLoS Homepage. OA Librarian. Replacing the Paper: The Twelve Rs of the e-Research Record.

I believe that the academic paper is now obsolescent as the fundamental sharable description of a piece of research.

Replacing the Paper: The Twelve Rs of the e-Research Record

In the future we will be sharing some other form of scholarly artefact, something which is digital and designed for reuse and to drop easily into the tooling of e-Research, and better suited to the emerging practices of data-centric researchers. These could be called Knowledge Objects or Publication Objects or whatever: I shall refer to them as Research Objects, because they capture research. Thus opened my August 2009 blog post "Replacing the paper: The Six Rs of the e-Research Record", which provided a 6-point definition of the properties of these sharable Research Objects. This definition has evolved through many conversations and presentations so today I'm re-presenting it, revised, reordered and, err, resplendent in its greater numerosity. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.

Intro Article to Open Science Movement. Howard Eisen, 1942-1987 On Father’s Day three years ago, biologist Jonathan Eisen decided he’d like to republish all his father’s papers.

Intro Article to Open Science Movement

His father, Howard Eisen, a biologist and a researcher at the National Institutes of Health, had published 40-some-odd papers by the time that he died by suicide at age 45. That had been in Febuary 1987, while Jonathan, a sophomore at college, was on the verge of discovering his own love of biology. At the time, virtually all scientific papers were just on paper.

Now, of course, everything happens online, and Jonathan, who in addition to researching and teaching also serves as an editor for the open-access, online-only journal PLoS Biology, knows this well. The Cost of Knowledge. The Open-Science Movement Catches Fire. Congress considers Research Works Act. Photo by Pat Ossa.

Congress considers Research Works Act

Full info below. TED Talk on Open Science. Despite 'open science' getting a lot of play lately, many people don't quite get what it is.

TED Talk on Open Science

That's understandable, because people use it to mean many things – open access to science publications; open sharing of data; open protocols of communication; open everything. Can get a little fuzzy. It takes a good story to pull it all together, and that's what Michael Nielsen delivers here: A nice, short, TED-sized story about a slick project that shows the power of open science's main principles.

Nielsen gave the talk a few weeks ago at TEDxWaterloo, one of the independently organized TED events, in this case, at Kitchener-Waterloo, Canada. I give the flagship TED some grief now and then, when its hunger for powerful ideas gives air to expressions of scientific claims that walk too far out beyond the evidence.