RAE 2008 can be criticised on several grounds but perhaps the most significant is that it is based on a view of universities that is 20 years out of date.
The advent of Web 2.0 applications, which enable information sharing and virtual networking, could revolutionize science. But are microbiologists taking advantage?
Anne O'Tate: A tool to support user-driven summarization, drill-down and browsing of PubMed search results. Journal of Biomedical Discovery and Collaboration
The highly contagious Norovirus can be passed from one person to another through contact with commonly shared items such as computer keyboards and computer mice, U.S. health officials report.
The US National Institute of Health has become the first major US agency to require those who receive public money to make their results available to the public.
SciVee allows scientists to communicate their work as a multimedia presentation incorporated with the content of a peer-reviewed article. SciVee is operated in partnership with the Public Library of Science (PLoS), the National Science Foundation (NSF) an
Elsevier has undertaken to have the majority of its Science Direct journals (those for which it holds or can obtain the copyrights) crawled and indexed by Google. Both Google and Google Scholar are slowly incorporating an increasing amount of this content