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[UK Web Focus] The way that researchers work is changing and so is the way they interact with the scholarly literature. Publishers and academics are experimenting with different types of scholarly content ranging from ”˜informal’ scholarly communication on wikis and blogs through different ways of writing books and journal articles, linking data to the primary literature and on to new technologies that render information in ways that transform online content beyond a mere digital facsimile of print.

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[Scholarly Communication] Scholarly Communication: Wikis and Blogs by Scientists - a new way ...: This is via blogs and wikis, both of which allow user participation in the discussion. Up to this point, most scientists have not widely embraced these new technologies, but this news article gives examples of several efforts in this .

[Open Medicine Blog blogs] How Wikis Might Change Medical Research | Open Medicine Blog: I'm glad to see different platforms being explored for their utility in scientific communication.  However, I think that when we talk about scholarly medical research, we need to be mindful of not only the needs of current authors and readers, but those of future readers as well.  In the early years of Cochrane, when a new review replaced an old one, it was just about impossible to get your hands on the old one.  There would be emails flying around trying to find someone who had their old CDs....crazy.  Good for clinicians to not accidentally stumble on old data, but not so good for the continuity of the scholarly record.

[Academic Evolution] Academic Evolution: The Open Scholar: Why not microblog one's progress via Twitter? I'd love to hear about those attempting to do this and whether they have seen a benefit from exposing and narrating their scholarly projects or research.

[Michael Braun's Blog] Michael Braun's Blog » Blog Archive » Kids Used To Love Textbooks ...: Abshire puts it best: “Teachers need digital resources to find those documents, those blogs, those wikis that get them beyond the plain vanilla curriculum in the textbooks.” Exactly! Published scholarly articles.

[Texas Digital Library] Sign up now for August training sessions at the Texas Digital ...: On Wednesday, August 19, the Texas Digital Library is offering several training courses on TDL services, including DSpace repository software, Scholarly Blogs, and Research Wikis.

[ISTE Connects - Educational Technology] Engage Me or Enrage Me! (Pt.1) | ISTE Connects - Educational ...: Of course not and I think Seely Brown hits on the reason for the resistance by some when he says, “For educators to really take advantage of the potential of technology, we need to rethink our practice.”

[ScienceBlogs : News] Test essay 3: Blogs, Wikis, Microblogging & benefits/threats to ...: Unlike wikis, whereanonymous contributions are merged into a central web page, blog postsare authored by a single person, but comments can be made at the post.Depending on the community, there may be a rich interchange of commentson each other’s posts, or few to no comments. Another form ofcommunity is through linking within posts to other blogs –commenting on posts on your own blog instead of the blog in which thepost originally appears.

[PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference Blog 2009] Maximizing the Reach of a Graduate Research Journal Through Open ...: -  an online space that looks at cultural formations including youth culture, media, music, art, film and ethnicity, etc.   Their goal is to not only publish research but to be accessible to the entire community, not just academic scholars.  Along the way they were faced with significant challenges (examples include web design, technical problems with layout of the vastly different programs and challenges from having multiple partners with decision-making authority).

[I'd Rather Be Writing - Tom Johnson] The Importance of LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook in Job Searches ...: Not sure if tech comm's audience is large enough, but perhaps someday. Mary Connor talks about the latest tools for exporting documentation to wikis.

[Open Education Conference] Social Media is Killing the LMS Star - A Bootleg of Bryan ...: Course ”˜content’ in a CMS is either brought in from the outside (scholarly or popular publications), or it is artificial (i.e. class work, not for use beyond the term, and not to be shared beyond the course), By contrast, Web 2.0 encourages the creation of real content.

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