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Academic worldwide conference database.
www.conferencealerts.com
Academic mailing lists within the UK are listed on the JISCmail website.
www.jiscmail.ac.uk
Nature Network - this site is a product of the Nature Publishing Group and provides a platform for connecting with other scientists through discussion groups, blogs, and profile searches. This site is becoming increasingly popular with young scientists (Smaglik, 2007a).
http://network.nature.com
PrometeoNetwork is a network for life science researchers and doctors. Members build profiles and become part of a searchable database through which they can discover new colleagues, communicate with their peers, and find new job opportunities. PrometeoNetwork hosts several sub-groups based on shared interest such as ‘stem cells’ and based on nationality such as ‘West Coast life sciences online’ (Fais, 2007).
http://prometeonetwork.com
BioMedExperts contains a searchable database of expert profiles of researchers and scientists working in the biomedicine field.
www.biomedexperts.com
The blog (15.4.4) Nascent maintained by the Nature Publishing Group describes new web technology in science.
http://blogs.nature.com/wp/nascent
The blog SciTechnet maintained by Gerry McKiernan, a librarian at Iowa State University, describes online networking services in science and technology.
http://scitechnet.blogspot.com
You can find a list of groups discussing bioscience research on the BIOSCI bionet website.
www.bio.net
An example of a news blog is the Nature blog (maintained by the Nature Publishing Group) which rounds up and comments on science news from around the world.
http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond
Nature.com blogs maintains blogs on specific topics such as climate change, avian flu, and web technology.
www.nature.com/blogs/index.html
Open Wetware Blogs hosts a number of blogs on specific and general scientific topics, written primarily by researchers.
http://openwetware.org
Research Blogging collects blog posts about peer-reviewed research.
www.researchblogging.org
Postgenomics collects science blog posts and flags up heavily discussed research papers. These are generally written by scientists.
www.postgenomic.com
Scientific Blogging http://scientificblogging.com and Science Blogs http://scienceblogs.com are websites that cluster science blogs so that they are easier to locate. The writers are mainly scientists and science communicators.
Bench Marks, a blog maintained by Cold Spring Harbor Protocols Editor, David Crotty discusses methods used in the biology laboratory.
www.cshblogs.org/cshprotocols
The journal Science maintains a Science Careers Blog which provides advice and information on planning a career in science.
http://blogs.sciencemag.org/sciencecareers
OpenWetWare project is a wiki site where users write courses collaboratively, research groups share and discuss protocols, and interest groups and blogs discuss topical issues. This wiki is open but contributors have to register and establish that they are part of a genuine research organization before they can write any material.
http://openwetware.org/wiki
Scirus Topic Pages is a wiki site where scientific experts write authoritative material on recent developments on specific topics. This wiki is open-view but editing rights are restricted to authorized people.
http://topics.scirus.com
UsefulChem is a laboratory notebook on a wiki site where Bradley’s research group at Drexel University record their daily experiments. The wiki is open-view.
http://usefulchem.wikispaces.com
Bomzer, D. (2002). How to get a good connection. Science Careers
http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_magazine/previous_issues/articles/2002_05_10/noDOI.1453519253429006978
Bradley, J. (2006). Open Notebook Science.
http://drexel-coas-elearning.blogspot.com/2006/09/open-notebook-science.html
Creative Commons. (2008). License your work.
http://creativecommons.org/license
Crotty, D. (2008). Web 2.0 for biologists—are any of the current tools worth using?
www.cshblogs.org/cshprotocols/2008/04/03/web-20-for-biologists-are-any-of-the-current-tools-worth-using/
Gawrylewski, G. (2007). For blogger: a threat then an apology. The Scientist.
www.the-scientist.com/news/home/53177
Jaschik, S. (2005). Too much information? Insider Higher Education.
www.insidehighered.com/news/2005/10/11/bloggers
JISC/PA. (1998). Joint Information Systems Committee and the Publishers Association. Guidelines for fair dealing in an electronic environment.
www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/elib/papers/pa/fair/intro.html
Neylon, C. (2007). Getting scooped. Science in the Open: an openwetware blog on the challenges of open and connected science. http://blog.openwetware.org/scienceintheopen/2007/11/14/getting-scooped
Society of Authors. (1965). Quick guide: permissions available at:
www.societyofauthors.net
Waldrop, M.M. (2008). Science 2.0: great new tool, or great risk? Scientific American
www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=science-2-point-0-great-new-tool-or-great-risk
Yoskovitz, B. (2007). How much time does it take to blog?
www.instigatorblog.com/how-much-time-does-it-take-to-blog/2007/03/08
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