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 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.