Science Spotlight – November 24th, 2009

• A brief analysis of commenting at BMC, PLoS, and BMJ | I was lost but now I live here

  Shirley Wu assesses the problem of scientists and comments (or rather, the lack thereof) at PLoS, BMJ or BioMed Central. Check out her perspective on Article-level Metrics and the Evolution of Scientific Impact with Cameron Neylon at PLoS Biology.

• Reflect | Cell Press Beta

  Reflect is a semantic enhancement tool that identifies and highlights proteins and small molecules mentioned in Cell articles. It is being piloted in two articles from the November 12th issue of Cell.

• First Anniversary (and the scientific method revisited) | Metamodern

  Eric Drexler weighs in on the problem with data-driven science (as opposed to the traditional hypothesis testing science).

• Nature Communications Q&A | Science in the open

  Cameron Neylon interviews Grace Baynes from the Nature Publishing Group communications team about the new journal Nature Communications, an online-only journal that will have an open access option.

• Promoting Open Source Science | WalterJessen.com

  Yours truly was interviewed about Open Source Science for Linux Insider recently. I published the entire interview on my blog since many of the questions and answers were left out of the final article. I trust I did the movement justice.

• Open Source Science? Or Distributed Science? | Common Knowledge

  John Wilbanks reflects on the open source software model and the problem with applying the terminology to science.

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