Beyond Scientific Publication: Strategies for Disseminating Research Findings
CARE: Community Alliance for Research and Engagement, Yale Center for Clinical Investigation
“A community research partnership is ideally part of a larger collaboration that includes the interests of each partner and spans a wide range of activities. Often a neglected afterthought in busy research schedules, the dissemination of key [...]

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Review this interesting study by Bahr and Cohen that investigated the synergistic features of published researchers at the Oregon Clinical and Translational Research Institute (OCTRI) to see how scientists with different specializations could work together to improve translational research.

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I found this interesting blog posting:
The next decade is likely to bring more change to scientific publishing than the decade that just ended. However, it will likely continue to be incremental change that builds on the existing infrastructure rather than destroying it. It will be change that puts pressure on publishers to become even more [...]

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Take a look at this interesting slide show titled “Technology Enabled Research.” It reviews how authors can establish a digital identity, keep track of research being done in their field and how to find collaborators using a variety of digital tools.

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The Neuroscience Information Framework (NIF) is an outstanding example of a web-based application to advance  neuroscience research.  What is NIF?
The Neuroscience Information Framework is a dynamic inventory of Web-based neuroscience resources: data, materials, and tools accessible via any computer connected to the Internet. An initiative of the NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience Research, NIF advances neuroscience research by [...]

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Check out the Office of Scientific and Tehnical Information (OSTI) blog. Dr. David Wojick’s interesting blog post of 28 October 2009, Leaping Concepts and Global Discovery discusses “leaping concepts.” This term refers to when ”. . . an important concept suddenly leaps from one community to another.”  Such leaps can be transformational as in the case of [...]

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The Public Library in Science (PLoS) articles now include a metrics tab– “Article-Level Metrics“–that allows for evaluation of research impact. Available data includes:

Article usage statistics – HTML pageviews, PDF downloads and XML downloads
Citations from the scholarly literature – currently from PubMed Central, Scopus and CrossRef
Social bookmarks – currently from CiteULike and Connotea
Comments – left by readers [...]

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A new report, “Communicating Knowledge: How and Why UK Researchers Publish and Disseminate their Findings” published by the Research Information Network (RIN) and JISC is now available.
“According to the report, if funders and institutions want to encourage researchers to disseminate their work through a variety of channels as well as in high-status journals, they must [...]

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