"Changes to student support within existing arrangements; efficiency savings and prioritisation across universities, science and research; some switching of modes of study in higher education; and reductions in budgets that do not support student participation."
Critique: An inward-looking scheme which must eventually collapse doe to failure to recruit new talent (and lack of a proper career structure will speed that up). Bye bye UK science.
If this is unstoppable, then whatever the timescale the alarm bell has to ring and businesses (not just publishers — including universities) have to accept that change is inevitable and plan quite carefully to deal with it.
Directory of Open Access Journals. This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. We aim to cover all subjects and languages. There are now 4381 journals in the directory.
The University of Florida, Cornell University and a handful of other schools have been awarded $12.2 million to build a social/collaborative network for scientists and researchers. The idea is to make it easier to find research and like-minded researchers in an effort to speed new discoveries.
"For adoption of new technologies in science, it has to be an order of magnitude more useful than current tools. We just don’t have the time to waste learning new tools that only marginally increase our productivity." Discussion: http://friendfeed.com/science-2-0/bceaea67/scientists-still-not-joining-social-networks
EndnoteWeb, RefWorks, Connotea, CiteULike, Zotero, Mendeley. Nice summary of the state of the art by Martin Fenner. Conclusion - not much to choose in some ways - personal preference!
This is the winning entry into the Elsevier Article 2.0 Contest by. It demonstrates how scientific article publishing can be improved by applying Web 1.0, Web 2.0 and Web 3.0/Semantic Web approaches to add value to article content. The application enhances content navigation, allows commenting on specific paragraphs and features of images, and allows facts to be asserted about the article and its contents.