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Entries in Peer Review (6)
In Health Emergencies, One Knowledge Management System Cannot Rule Them All
I received an email commenting on Social Networking and Elsevier’s “Grand Challenge” for Knowledge Enhancement in the Life Sciences. I had suggested that networked access to published health science authors would be useful in emergency situations where there is the need for rapid access to high quality health information from many different sources.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Google, Social Networking, Standards, Knowledge Management, Expertise Management, Tagging, Associations, Peer Review, Social Media, Disaster Response, Homeland Security, Emergency, Libraries, Social Network Portability, DataPortability
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Social Networking and Elsevier's "Grand Challenge" for Knowledge Enhancement in the Life Sciences
Netherlands-based mega-publisher (and former employer) Elsevier BV has issued a grand challenge:
Dennis D. McDonald
in Governance, Social Networking, Publishing, Knowledge Management, Expertise Management, Peer Review, Journals, Social Media, Content Management, Homeland Security, Emergency, Libraries, MySpace, DataPortability, R&D Management, Knowledge Transfer, Internet
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WIkipedia Revisited (Again)
I've witnessed firtshand some of the editorial craziness surrounding Wikipedia. Frankly, I'm tired of the subject. For those who are still awake to this topic and would welcome a wonderfully long and opinionated discussion of the issues swirling around Wikipedia, check out WIkipedia Revisited, by Walt Crawford, in the newsletter Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large, Volume 7, Number 3.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Web 2.0, Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Wiki, Peer Review, Wikipedia
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How Involved Should the U.S. Government Be in the Scholarly Journal Publishing Business?
Wired News on March 14, 2007 posted a story about U.S. Senators John Cornyn’s and Joseph Liebermann’s announced decision to re-introduce last year’s Federal Research Public Access Act (S.2695, also called “FRPAA”).
Dennis D. McDonald
in Social Networking, Publishing, Business Models, Associations, Peer Review, Journals, Social Media, Science
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More Comparisons of Journal Peer Review and Blogging
My earlier blog post A Comparison of Blogging and Journal Peer Review compared and contrasted blogging with peer reviewed journals. Here I extend this comparison and suggest some additional examples of possible crossover between the two.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Blogging, Social Networking, Publishing, Peer Review, Journals
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A Comparison of Blogging and Journal Peer Review
Updated on Saturday, November 4, 2006 at 08:37AM by
Dennis D. McDonald
It's interesting to compare and contrast the rough-and-tumble publishing experience that is the blogosphere with the formalized system of peer review that has existed with scholarly journals for many years.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Blogging, Peer Review, Journals
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