Science Spotlight – March 6th, 2009

Several scholarly institution libraries are creating novel platforms and partnerships to combat rising journal subscription costs and reduced financial support to publish faculty research.

The next generation of research tools will parse, learn and search, automatically. Data manipulation will allow effortless aggregation and filtering. And just like Daniel, we too would pay for such a tool!

David Crotty reflects on online scientific literature reference repositories and the shortcomings of organizing references by tags.

Bora Zivkovic announces that the 3rd annual anthology of best of science blogs – The Open Laboratory 2008 – is now available for order.

Ricardo Vidal interviews Victor Henning from Mendeley, a combination of desktop software and social network for managing and sharing academic papers.

TalkingScience presented a panel on “Science 2.0: Science Outreach Options in an Online World” at Yale University at the end of January. View video clips of the discussion, including alternative careers for young scientists, getting into science communications, and networking and navigating science online.