Interesting articles about the use of Twitter and health information: Dissemination of Health InformationThrough Social Networks: Twitter and Antibiotics Medicine and Social Media: Why Do I Tweet? Medicine in the Age of Twitter
Entries Tagged as 'Dissemination of Research'
Beyond Scientific Publication: Strategies for Disseminating Research Findings
February 23rd, 2010 by Cathy · No Comments
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 [...]
Discovering Synergistic Qualities of Published Authors to Enhance Translational Research
January 26th, 2010 by Cathy · No Comments
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.
Tags:Collaboration, Dissemination of Research, Enhancement of Research
reBlog from Michael Clarke under: The Scholarly Kitchen
January 8th, 2010 by Cathy · No Comments
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 [...]
Tags:Dissemination of Research, Economics of Scholarly Resources, Publishing Models
Technology Enabled Research
November 25th, 2009 by Cathy · No Comments
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.
Tags:Collaboration, Dissemination of Research, Publishing Models, Support for Authors
Neuroscience Information Framework (NIF)
November 20th, 2009 by Cathy · No Comments
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 [...]
Leaping Concepts
October 29th, 2009 by Cathy · No Comments
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 [...]
PLoS Article-Level Metrics
September 30th, 2009 by Cathy · No Comments
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 [...]
Tags:Authors at WU, Dissemination of Research, Impact Factors, Research Impact
Communicating Knowledge
September 23rd, 2009 by Cathy · No Comments
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 [...]
Tags:Citation Analysis, Dissemination of Research, Research Impact
