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Data-sharing: Everything On Display : Naturejobs
Why scientists don't share their data
Open data-sharers are still in the minority in many fields. Although many researchers broadly agree that public access to raw data would accelerate science — because other scientists might be able to make advances not foreseen by the data's producers — most are reluctant to…
Iannotate — Whatever Happened To The Web As An Annotation System? | The Scholarly Kitchen
Researchers resist public commenting
Access control is perhaps another issue that comes into play for any system. As journal commenting systems have proven, most researchers are hesitant, if not downright hostile, to the idea of publicly commenting on the works of others. Most researchers do discuss works in…
Nature-branded Journal Goes Open Access-only: Can We Celebrate Already? | Open Knowledge Foundation Blog
Open access vs publication access
So we made it: the greatest bastions of traditional scientific publishing are clearly signaling support for open access. Can we pop the champagne already? This announcement obviously has positive aspects: for example, lives can be saved in poor countries where doctors may have…
Online Collaboration: Scientists And The Social Network : Nature News & Comment
Academic social networks
More than 4.5 million researchers have signed up for ResearchGate, and another 10,000 arrive every day, says Madisch. That is a pittance compared with Facebook’s 1.3 billion active users, but astonishing for a network that only researchers can join. And Madisch has grand goals…
Thesauri Of Historical Periods – A Proposal For Standardization.
Period names mean different things to different archaeologists
Archaeologists create terminology about periods in order to classify finds by a schema of relative chronology (periods) and to relate sequences of settlements and cultures. The use of a certain terminology implies a number of ideas that may differ from researcher to researcher…