Social networks as a source of scientific

information

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Incessant need in human nature is

•LEARNING PROCESS:exploring, discovering new appearance , phenomenon

•TEACHING PROCESS

Spreading knowledge

“Yes, giving and sharing knowledge / skills is my ultimate wish what I want to do when I grow more gray, I mean when I grow up ;-)”

Tanja Jovanovic Grove

http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/10/scienceonline09_-_interview_wi_15.

Thanks to web-based technologies and Internet development as an open and accessible universe, scientific information can be reached and spread much easier.

Open Access - free information on the web is no longer an unknown phenomenon to scientific population

unlimited online publishingshould be an autonomic right

of all authors !

Scientific information online has a new form

Discussions, peer reviews, comments, derivative articles…

Making a platform on specific scientific topics, with free available

literature, is a perfect mode to make articles visible to other scientists

Visibility

Readers Citation

Availability

http://www.jove.com/

How to find Open Access repositories

• -Ask Google!ROARRegistry of Open Access Repositories

http://roar.eprints.org/(Tim Brody)

Copyright 2005-2007 Tim Brody

RSS feed

RSS feed aggregators as a source of scientific Information

Vedran Vučić RSS feed aggregators, Open Access source

Scientific institutions’ websites are good places for publishing articles online.

CancerResearchUk http://info.cancerresearchuk.org/

podcast

CHAT… www.cancerresearchuk.org/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHUqwxIxgZQ&feature=autoshare_twitter

Web applications that combine freely available data from various sources to create a new way to reach scientific information!

Librarians have new role:web tools researchers!

…MASHUPS…

Scienceblogs

web logging – blog is a precious tool very much spread in (through) scientific population

Platforms - could contain many scientific fields or just one

Scienceblogslog, a source of news highlights is very usual common addition to the of institutions’ websites

BLOG has a different form than websites.

Posted chronologicaly, all news are in doc. files

Never underestimate blog readers.

They have important role in creation of blogs, they participate with their comments, suggestions, discussions…

http://speakingofmedicine.plos.org/category/ask-plos-medicine/

Bloggs of librarians...

http://vizedu.com/2009/01/twitter-and-health-20/comment-page-1/#comment-1696

Mike Elgan : three types of people

Anti social networkersSocial networks are waste of time

Closed social networkers Restrict connections –family and close friends

Open social networkershave large group of following friends increasing the net everyday with colleagues, new friends, sharing informations

…a small step in networking, blogging, and using Open Access…