Science 2.0 is all about better way of Science practice in new time. A new academic discipline of Science Engineering is emerging?!

This is what came to my mind, when I saw Michael Nielsen resigned from Perimeter Institute for pursuing his new interests in the development of new tools for scientific collaboration and publication.

A book I would like to read.

Physicists slam publishers over Wikipedia ban, “To tell us what we can do with our paper is completely at odds with practice in the field”

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Jonathan Oppenheim: Traditional journals and copyright transfer

This is the title of a SciAM article by M. Mitchell Waldrop, which discusses the possible impact of Wikis, blogs and other web 2.0 technologies on Science communications. What's really new for this article is that it experiments on "networked journalism," in which readers are invited to comment and give the story its final form.

Adrienne J. Gauthier of Steward Observatory, University of Arizona had an interesting seminar at ESO last Thursday. The title of the seminar is Astronomy in Second Life. She introduced some basic facts of Second Life, and showed some of the current astronomy themed spaces and education and public outreach activities in Second Life. She has published a paper on this topic, which can be freely downloaded.

Just noticed Zotero, a FireFox extension, which can help me collect, manage and cite digital research resources. It can automatically capture citation information from various web sites, including most major academic journal sites. Feature list as put by Zotero developers:

Automatic capture of citation information from web pages
Storage of PDFs, files, images, links, and whole web pages
Flexible notetaking with autosave
Fast, as-you-type search through your materials

The Open Optics Journal, yet another open access Optics journal, from Bentham Science Publications, which is not known in Optics field before. They are launching more than 200 peer-reviewed open access journals during this year, under the banner of "Bentham OPEN". Wow ;)

Michael Nielsen said he will change field from Quantum Information and Computation to "the development of new tools for scientific collaboration and publication". I think it is a brave and bright decision. We need established scientists like him to push the evolution of science communication, to make the future of science come earlier.

SciLink.com - Science Connected, FaceBook for scientists?

Jean-Claude Bradley set up an area called Scifoo Lives On on one of Nature 's Second Life islands, as an extension of Scifoo Camp 2007 in virtual world. There are three sessions scheduled:

Aug 20, 2007 9:00 PT/16:00 GMT, Tools for Open Science

Aug 27, 2007 9:00 PT/16:00 GMT, Medicine and Web 2.0

Sept 4, 2007 9:00 PT/16:00 GMT, Definitions of Open Science