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For those who want to take a glimpse at where science and scientific discourse are going, take a look at some of the papers at this workshop: Workshop on Semantic Web Applications in Scientific Discourse , October 26, 2009, Proceedings ), part of The 8th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2009) Keynote: Enabling Semantic Publication and Integration of Scientific Information David Shotton. Presentation . A Short Survey of Discourse Representation Models Tudor Groza, Siegfried Handschuh, Tim Clark and Simon Buckingham Shum Paper Presentation Strategic Reading and Scientific Discourse Allen Renear and Carole Palmer Paper 'Confortation': about a new qualitative category for analyzing biomedical texts Delphine Battistelli, Antonietta Folino, Patricia Geretto, Ludivine Kuznik, Jean-Luc Minel and Florence Amardeilh Paper Presentation Hypotheses, Evidence and Relationships:The HypER Model of Representing Scientific Knowledge Anita de Waard, Simon Buckingham Shu...

Rod Page 's demo for his Elsevier Grand Challenge submission (" Towards realising Darwin’s dream: setting the trees free ") shows the type of enrichment of biological - if not all research - articles that is quickly becoming possible. Taking a published article (" Mitochondrial paraphyly in a polymorphic poison frog species (Dendrobatidae; D. pumilio "), various additional biological, geographical and other metadata are extracted and added to a web page for the article. These include: Map showing all localities mentioned in the paper, with their enclosing polygon List of other studies which have samples in area enclosed by the study polygon Each of the following are linked through to their underlying databases (such as NIH accession number and NCBI nucleotide viewer or linked to ubio taxonomic name viewer record: List of sequence features (such as genes) in the article List of taxa sequenced in the article List of gene sequences cited by the article An image c...

I am following with a sense of detached fascination UBC researcher Dr. Rosie Redfield's saga of her quest to get her CIHR funded article published in a scientific journal and also made available Open Access . While her blog is not one dedicated to Open Access but instead to her research (" Thinking about our research into the mechanism, function and evolution of DNA uptake by Haemophilus influenzae and other bacteria "), it is clear that she is spending more time and accruing more frustration dealing with this particular issue than she would want to be, or should be... Update: 2008 Nov 12 : It seems that the Dr. Redfield has given up on Elsevier, and has decided to stop publishing articles with this publisher: " ... I won't be submitting to any Elsevier journals in the future ."