linkouts

2collab ... is a new type of research tool launched in 2007- a collaboration platform designed specifically for researchers in the science, technical and medical communities. intended for use by professional researchers in academic, government and corporate institutions, 2collab provides three types of features: (1) online bookmarking and reference management; (2) groups - for sharing with existing networks, or building new ones; (3) networking - find, evaluate and initiate contact with new people
[they also carried out a very interesting social media survey back in mid-June]

NPG, in their ultimate wisdom, have recently launched a manscript deposition service and previous to that an english language editing service... the former enables authors to meet the open access or public access policies of all of the participating funders, making it simple and free for researchers to comply and the latter is pretty much what it says on the tin - with gold and silver options, which are 'comprehensive' and 'thorough' respectively...

CrossRef have launched CrossCheck with iThenticate in order to verify the originality of works submitted for publication...

Charlesworth have developed AutoProof to be integrated with Aries Preprint Manager. it allows publishers to create page proofs from their own desk top within ten minutes (!)

NISO and ALPSP have released a report on journal article versions, which describes the various versions that appear - and especially what the 'version of record' is...

and, finally, a great post from the scholarly kitchen asking 'are we watching the wrong things'?

CrossRef annual meeting summary

this has been my first opportunity to report on the CrossRef meeting that both Stuart and I attended last week. i'm not going to go into too much detail, but give you links to the important sites so you can read more if you want. it's unfortunately the case that CrossRef have not yet (to my knowledge) released the presentations to their website, but when they do, i'll update to link through to the excellent talk ("Quality and Trust in Scholarly Publishing") given right at the end of the day by Sally Morris, ALPSP's previous CEO.

Here's the meeting agenda, biographies and presentations - the latter of which will likely be where those presentations come live.

Alex Frost, sermo: a knowledge ecosystem for physicians

Richard Kidd, RSC, Project Prospect: i've mentioned this before (see tag)

Pritpal Tamber, F1000 Medicine: post-publication peer recommendation

Edward Wates, Wiley-Blackwell: Trustworthiness: Does the publisher have a role to play?
this is another slideset you should check out when it comes online, but here are some connected links...
Author's version vs. publisher's version: an analysis of the copy-editing function
Best Practice Guidelines on Publication Ethics: a Publisher's Perspective

The post-lunch, graveyard-shift was taken by Ben Goldacre, the Guardian's Bad Science columnist/blogger: an insightful and interesting view into the minds of the media and public perception of science.