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 and sermo partner up...

DOIs will back the links from discussion to content...

CrossRef, the publisher linking service, announced that it has entered into a strategic partnership with Sermo, the largest online physician community. Through this new partnership, Sermo will make use of the DOI® (Digital Object Identifier) to link real-time physician discussions about current research to the source medical journal articles.

other more 'social' health sites are...

iMedix, which won best new startup at the TechCrunch Crunchies 2007

iMedix is a free website that helps you find and share health information. At iMedix, you are not alone, coping with fear and confusion regarding your medical condition. Whether you're looking for symptoms, diseases, treatments, or simply general health information, you will be searching together with many other people. Members of the iMedix community assist each other by sharing their experiences and ranking medical content in order to make health information personal, organized and accessible to any individual.

and the still to come google health

CrossRef makes it to 30 million

CrossRef, the well known linking service, announced today that it had recently registered its 30 millionth DOI. While the majority of CrossRef’s Digital Object Identifiers® (DOIs)® are assigned to online journal articles, there are now over 2.5 million DOI names assigned to other types of publications, including conference proceedings, dissertations, books, datasets, and technical reports. CrossRef’s dues-paying membership exceeds 500, with over 2,400 publishers and societies participating in CrossRef linking.

The 30 millionth DOI, doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.76.055201 was registered by The American Physical Society for their journal Physical Review E.

CrossRef adds an average of 550,000 new items every month to its DOI registry and linking service. Of the over 6.5 million DOIs created and assigned during the past year, a large number are associated with archival, or back-file, journal articles, as several large publishers have recently undertaken extensive retro-digitization projects. These include the Royal Society, Elsevier, Springer, Sage, Kluwer, Wiley, Blackwell, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2007 alone, the scholarly journal archive JSTOR added a total of 325,251 DOIs to CrossRef.

CrossRef basics

this slide taken from the CrossRef Basics Webinar...


... is a good, simple explanation of why we deposit and what happens when we do.

CrossRef annual meeting summary - presentations available

all now available here.

you should definitely check out the ones from Geoff Bilder, Edward Wates and (especially) Sally Morris...

CrossRef annual meeting summary (cont.)

what i left out of that post were the new CrossRef projects in the pipeline...

ticTOCs: service for academics and researchers to find, display, store, combine and reuse tables of contents from multiple publishers in a personalisable web based environment

CrossCheck: cross-publisher plagiarism detection service

WebCite: (mentioned before) archiving system for webreferences

other things were:

the Web Deposit Form: allows you to enter metadata and register DOIs

DOI tester: via the member's area (un/pw reqd) to crawl/recrawl and test validity of DOIs deposited

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.