Scientific Conversations about Open Access Scientific Articles

I wanted to highlight what I think is quite an interesting development. 

Basically the link is to a writeup by Jon Udell, Microsoft Evangelist (lovely job title ;-)). Some of you may know Jon, who is familiar with library and scholarly communication issues and has contributed to open source tools for libraries (e.g. his LibraryLookup bookmarklet made him quite famous in the library world several years ago). Anyway, his post is interesting because it describes a method for anyone to track conversations surrounding scientific journal literature published in open access journals.  I'm not sure if it is correct to call this tool (originally developed by Alf Eaton at Nature) a mashup, but it is a really inventive way to make use of existing tools, identifiers, and APIs.

Comments

[Christina Pikas]

In a smaller way, a bunch of scientist bloggers (and one librarian) are working out ResearchBlogging.org. It aggregates posts discussing peer reviewed research. You register your blog in advance, and then get the tag for the post to let the aggregator know. Good stuff!