The Coming Revolution in Scholarly Communications & Cyberinfrastructure, CTWatch Quarterly 07年8月期。可全文阅读，内容包括：

Introduction
Lee Dirks, Microsoft Corporation
Tony Hey, Microsoft Corporation

The Shape of the Scientific Article in The Developing Cyberinfrastructure
Clifford Lynch, Coalition for Networked Information (CNI)
Next-Generation Implications of Open Access
Paul Ginsparg, Cornell University

Web 2.0 in Science
Timo Hannay, Nature Publishing

Reinventing Scholarly Communication for the Electronic Age
J. Lynn Fink, University of California, San Diego
Philip E. Bourne, University of California, San Diego

由美国国家自然基金会(National Science Foundation),公共科学图书馆(Public Library of Science)和圣迭戈超级计算中心(San Diego Supercomputer Center)合作推出了一个新的SciVee的网站，可以被认为是YouTube的Science版本。科学家们可以在上面上传论文或者以讲座的形式来展示他们的研究成果。旨在给描述科学一个除了解决程式化的和难以读懂的科学论文以外的别的方法。
via: solidot

看了一下 scivee，因为是 PLoS 做的，所以内容多是生物类的。另外，发现它又是用 drupal 做的，drupal 真是很强大，而且很受科学群体的欢迎。

Michael Nielsen 最近又开始活跃地 blog 起来。最近一个帖子提到，他也在考虑网络对科学的影响，并已经开始起草一本相关的书，在未来几个礼拜内会贴出一个摘要。摘要将谈到这些内容：

Micropublication（微发表）: Allowing immediate publication in small incremental steps, both of conventional text, and in more diverse media formats (e.g. commentary, code, data, simulations, explanations, suggestions, criticism and correction). All are to be treated as first class fully citable publications, creating an incentive for people to contribute far more rapidly and in a wider range of ways than is presently the case.

Open source research（开源研究）: Using version control systems to open up scientific publications so they can be extended, modified, reused, refactored and recombined by other users, all the while preserving a coherent and citable record of who did what, and when.

The future of peer review（同行评议的未来）: The present quality assurance system relies on refereeing as a filtering system, prior to publication. Can we move to a system where the filtering is done after publication?

Collaboration markets（合作市场）: How can we fully leverage individual expertise? Most researchers spend much of their time reinventing the wheel, or doing tasks at which they have relatively little comparative advantage. Can we provide mechanisms to easily outsource work like this?

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刚过去这个周末最有意思的事情当属 scifoo 2007 了。参看去年我对 scifoo 的介绍。

今年的变化是，参加者可以自由地报道 scifoo 上的所见所闻了，所以可以从blog 圈里了解到许多信息。

太赞了，什么时候我们中文世界也能组织这样的活动啊。

Science 上一篇文章：The Scientific Research Potential of Virtual Worlds。via：姬十三

Online virtual worlds, electronic environments where people can work and interact in a somewhat realistic manner, have great potential as sites for research in the social, behavioral, and economic sciences, as well as in human-centered computer science. This article uses Second Life and World of Warcraft as two very different examples of current virtual worlds that foreshadow future developments, introducing a number of research methodologies that scientists are now exploring, including formal experimentation, observational ethnography, and quantitative analysis of economic markets or social networks.

听起来挺有趣的。记忆中，已经有过不少以社会性软件为对象的研究论文了。自己做一个网站，然后以它的统计数据来发表研究论文，这似乎挺酷的。

一个相关的信息，也许有人还不知道：如果想在 second life 上做一点科学相关的探索，可以联系自然出版社，他们可以给你一点 second life 的土地。说明在这里。