Social Media Transforming the Scientific Publishing Model?
Jean-Paul Boucher
Thursday, 16 July 2009 13:56 UTC
What do you think? Here is a very interesting blog about it:
http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/is-scientific-publishing-about-to-be-disrupted/
PS – it even mentions the Nature Network… ;)
Updated 16 July 2009 13:56 UTC
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Good relevant artice and this is food for thought,
I remember when people laughed at Google! I know multiple organizations who are run by malevolent and/or stupid people. They are prospering and doing well. I think if you are in the right place at the right time and manage to keep up things will happen and funds will roll in. It is possible that people get bogged down by the intricacies of maintenance and lose the edge for new ideas and awareness of what the market wants and needs. They see themselves as major and the rest of the world as start ups and that is where the trouble begins…The way to greatness in any field is to find ways to serve many, the orgs often implode over years and become accustomed to having others come to them as they have created a world where going out to others except to enlarge the net doesn’t happen. In many fields breakthroughs have come from those outside the discipline…I think the principles apply to science as well and it is communicate,adapt, observe and prosper..
Malevolence and stupidity can bring an org down but it is unlikely the org started this way and human nature often labels negatively to distance themselves from the same tragedy.
The article had some great links!
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