Systems/layers: research and writing workflow 

Meredith has a great post on her research workflow over at Information Wants to Be Free. My research needs are a little different now that I am no longer working in an academic library. When I had access to scholarly databases everyday from my desktop, I was reading the literature far more regularly than I [...]

Happy Open Access Day! 

Today, October 14, is the first Open Access Day. A synchroblogging event is being held asking bloggers to write about what Open Access means to them. You can track posts at Google Blog Search, Technorati, and the Open Access Day FriendFeed room. Open Access is something I have been interested in for several years now, [...]

WikiProfessional and Calais 

WikiProfessional Via the RIN blog, Jan Velterop recently of Springer is heading to KnewCo, which is behind WikiProfessional. WikiProfessional is designed for researchers and scientists to interact using a database and wiki with a Semantic Web foundation – The core functionality of this workspace is a newly invented “Semantic-Wiki”. The Semantic-Wiki connects the new relational [...]