How social networks want to change the pace of scientific publication
September 22nd, 2008
2.0 tools are starting to change the shape of scientific debate. An article published this week in The Economist reminds us of the fact.
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For decades, research has been moving on step by step, following the pace of major scientific publications. The process is tedious. For an article about a new scientific discovery to be published, results, methodology, must be peer reviewed by several other researchers. They investigate the entire protocol. The all procedure takes months, sometimes years.
Nature Network wants to change that. Researchblogging as well. The rationale for the second can not be more explicit:
“Do you like to read about new developments in science and other fields? Are you tired of science by press release? ResearchBlogging.org is your place. Research Blogging allows readers to easily find blog posts about serious peer-reviewed research, instead of just news reports and press releases”.
According to ResearchBlogging, bloggers are often experts in their field. They write well thought notes over their research. Scientific bloggers can register on ResearchBlogging. Each new post is then tagged and indexed. A team of experts checks articles quality. Readers can comment, make their own observations, rectify interpretations. Posts are classified according to disciplines and specific fields of research (anthropology, chemistry, biology, psychology, etc.).. The tool allows open interaction. It is faster than any classical peer reviewing
Nature Network is a sister company of Nature magazine. The philosophy is similar to the one behind ResearchBlogging. But Nature Network is more of a social network, the type of Facebook or MySpace. Each researcher can create his own profile, join scientific groups on topics of any interest to him/her. Dozens of groups have already been created (regarding membranes, conscience, the effect of calcium …). On top of ot, in order to foster scientific blogging, Nature Network is organizing a competition. The best blog posts will be published for good.
Science 2.0 could provide scientific innovation an impentus never known in former History, as it shortens the time between scientific discoveries and effective communication to the whole researchers community.
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