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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...

The Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) - which publishes research video-articles - is now indexed by PubMed, as reported in the JoVE blog . Related: Visualize This! Interview with Moshe Pritsker , co-founder and editor-in-chief of JoVE [2008 Feb] Troy, T., Arabzadeh, A., Enikanolaiye, A., Lariviere, N., Turksen, K. (2008). Immunohistochemistry on Paraffin Sections of Mouse Epidermis Using Fluorescent Antibodies. Journal of Visualized Experiments DOI: 10.3791/552 . A JoVE video article from University of Ottawa and Ottawa Health Research Institute (I work in the Ottawa area).

The Microsoft Research Faculty Summit 2008 included Publishing and Research Tools for Academics that allows for archival annotation and structuring of Microsoft software produced documents, as well as supporting PubMed Central format . Additional sessions of interest: The Cyberspace Connection – Impact on Individuals, Society, and Research New Developments in Scholarly Communication Reflections on Directions in Artificial Intelligence What Will Be the Impact of Cloud Services on Science? Spotlights on Interdisciplinary Artificial Intelligence Research AI, Sensing, and Optimized Information Gathering: Trends and Directions Ontological Myths: Reducing the Confusion Social Networking and Semantics Toward Situated Interaction Statistical Machine Translation Research at Microsoft Research Interactive Machine Learning: Challenges, Methods, and Applications Information Extraction from Documents and Queries Contexts in Computer Science Education The Future of Research Clouds REAssess: Resou...

Here are a number of fairly recent Open Access (OA) references that I have collected that need a home. They are from a number of different perspectives, certainly beyond the usual science, technology, medicine (STM) focus of most of my OA postings, and include Middle East Studies, law publishing, OA activities in China and South Asia, and even Bakhtinian dialogism ! I hope they are useful: Byrne, Alex. 2007. Open Access and development: physician, heal thyself! 73rd IFLA General Conference and Council , Durban, South Africa, 19-23 August 2007. Harper, Georgia K. 2008. NIH Open Access Mandate: A Careful Look at Two Options for Retaining Authors’ Rights – "Do Nothing" and ΄Do it Early and Efficiently‘ . Newsletter of the Center for Intellectual Property , Spring 2008. Kennan, Mary Anne & Kautz, Karlheinz. 2007. Scholarly publishing and Open Access: searching for understanding of an emerging IS phenomenon . The 15th European Conference on Information Systems, University of...

The Scholarly Kitchen is a scholarly publishing & community blog looking at interesting projects, activities, other blogs, etc. I like its tone and its focus. Some recent postings include Open Access, the data vs. hypothesis debate, reputation and journal quality, happenings at/with PLoS, the h-index, applications not publications, etc.

At a recent plenary I gave [ earlier post ] at the Colorado Association of Research Libraries Next Gen Library Interfaces conference, I went a little off-script and was educating (/haranguing) the mostly librarian audience about the present-and-near-future importance of the accessibility of full-text research articles to their researchers and scientists. By accessibility of full-text I didn't mean the ability of a human to access the PDF or HTML of an article via a web browser: I was referring to the machine- accessibility of the text contained in the article (and the metadata and the citation information). I was concerned because of the increasing number of discipline-specific tools that use full-text (& metadata & citations) to allow users (via text mining, semantic analysis, etc.) to navigate, analyze and discover new ideas and relationships, from the research literature. The general label for this kind of research is ' literature-based discovery ', where new ...

The 2nd European Conference on Scientific Publishing in Biomedicine and Medicine (Oslo, Sept 4 - 6, 2008) has announced its programme : How to get to universal Open Access and why we want to get there. The progress of science: what hinders and what helps in an OA environment? Funding to authors for OA publishing. University Central Funds for Open Access. Licensing & Copyright: major issues for some. Making the repository a researcher's resource. Open access and the commercial biomedical publishers. Science Publishing: the future of journal publishing. Evaluation of Scientific Research by Advanced Quantitative Methods Beyond Impact Factors. The use and misuse of bibliometric indices in evaluating scholarly performance. What linking in CrossRef can tell us about research.

There is a special issue (Winter 2008) of Journal of Electronic Publishing entitled "Special Issue on Communications, Scholarly Communications and the Advanced Research Infrastructure". It examines from a number of different perspectives and interests the intersection of cyberinfrastructure, scholarship and scholarly communication and how they are impacting -- and will be impacting -- scholarly activities. Overview: Editor's Note . Judith Axler Turner Cyberscholarship: High Performance Computing Meets Digital Libraries . William Y. Arms . When Authorship Isn't Enough: Lessons from CERN on the Implications of Formal and Informal Credit Attribution Mechanisms in Collaborative Research . Jeremy Birnholtz The Virtual Observatory Meets the Library . G. Sayeed Choudhury Triple Helix: Cyberinfrastructure, Scholarly Communication, and Trust . Amy Friedlander Talk About Talking About New Models of Scholarly Communication . Karla L. Hahn Can Universities Dream of Electric She...