Publishing in the New Millennium: A Forum on Publishing in the Biosciences: topic
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Science in the 21st century - meeting in September 2008
Maxine Clarke
Monday, 09 June 2008 13:56 UTC
There is a meeting with this title on 8-12 September 2008.
From the conference website:
Times are changing. In the earlier days, we used to go to the library, today we search and archive our papers online. We have collaborations per email, hold telephone seminars, organize virtual networks, write blogs, and make our seminars available on the internet. Without any doubt, these technological developments influence the way science is done, and they also redefine our relation to the society we live in. Information exchange and management, the scientific community, and the society as a whole can be thought of as a triangle of relationships, the mutual interactions in which are becoming increasingly important.
The organisers are the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, not very “biosciences” but no doubt highly relevant to “publishing in the new millennium”. See more at conference website link above.
Updated 09 June 2008 16:58 UTC
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Although I don’t have a background in physics, I’ve encountered the Perimeter Institute before as they have a very nice archive of video lectures and seminars: PIRSA
Although PIRSA contains videos, it is apparently modelled on the physics preprint server ArXiv. The site struck me as a nice collection of lectures, although they could benefit from some “web 2.0” features (allowing user contributions) and better ways of viewing the video (such as a Flash player). I’d love to see something similar for the biomedical sciences.
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