This news item may interest subscribers. Apologies for duplicate postings.
Dear ICSTI Member
Below is a message from Lee Dirks of Microsoft, who of course are ICSTI members, which highlights the release by Microsoft Research of a new collection of essays ‘The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery’ edited by Tony Hey et al. This is a timely review by top drawer contributors of a subject area that builds on the vision of computer scientist Jim Gray and will resonate with the interests of many ICSTI members. Note that since the book is published under a creative commons licence articles are free to download. Make sure that you also click on the interview with Tony Hey in which he refers to Professor Carol Goble who was the winner of the first Jim Gray eScience Award, and who will be presenting at the ICSTI Summer Conference in Helsinki in June 2010.
Best regards
Tony Llewellyn
Executive Director, ICSTI
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Our group in MSR External Research published this work and it was announced/released yesterday. There is a special section on Scholarly Communication.
[And it is published under a creative commons license for free download of any article so it is definitely an open success publication!]
We will also have a print-on-demand book version and versions for the Kindle and Sony eBook Reader ...
Tony Hey, Stewart Tansley, and Kristin Tolle, eds., The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery, published by Microsoft Research, October 16, 2009. See especially the section "Scholarly Communication":
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/collaboration/fourthparadigm/
Lee Dirks, Introduction
Clifford Lynch, Jim Gray's fourth paradigm and the construction of the scientific record Paul Ginsparg, Text in a data-centric world Herbert Van de Sompel and Carl Lagoze, All aboard: toward a machine-friendly scholarly communication system Anne Fitzgerald, Brian Fitzgerald, and Kylie Pappalardo, The future of data policy John Wilbanks, I have seen the paradigm shift, and it is us Timo Hannay, From web 2.0 to the global database.
Also see this interview with Tony Hey:
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/fourthparadigm-101609.aspx
Wendy
Dr. Wendy A. Warr
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RESERVE THE DATE - 8 FEBRUARY 2010
Interactive Publications and the Record of Science
A One-Day ICSTI Workshop
Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, 4 place Jussieu, 75005 Paris, France.
Monday 8 February 2010 - 9.00am to 5.30pm (Check-in and breakfast from 8.15am)
Why attend
The Web is by nature an interactive environment, yet online journals are mostly static, consistent with their traditional role as a never-changing scholarly record. However, this traditional role is increasingly challenged as browser technologies leap forward, dynamic visualization and presentation tools proliferate, and primary data are linked to research articles.
In an important and timely event arranged by ICSTI (the International Council for Scientific and Technical Information), publishers, publishing service providers, librarians, editors and authors will meet in Paris for a full one-day workshop to survey the most exciting and challenging of the new developments and to begin to identify the necessary infrastructure for including interactive content within the record of science.
Session topics are: (I) Interactive visualizations; (II) Adding value with enriched content and semantic links; (III) The archival problem and infrastructure for solutions; (IV) W(h)ither journals?
Speakers include representatives from the Nature Publishing Group, National Library of Medicine, Royal Society of Chemistry, International Union of Crystallography, OECD, Concept Web Alliance, SciVee, British Library, CrossRef and Cell Press.
REGISTRATION WILL OPEN OCTOBER 23, 2009
Programme and Registration
Because seats are limited, advance registration is required.
The registration fee, which includes continental breakfast, lunch and refreshment breaks, is 150 Euros for ICSTI members, 200 Euros for non-members and 80 Euros for students. Members of ALPSP, IATUL, ISSN, NFAIS and STM, which are all associate member of ICSTI are eligible for the member rate for this event, as are members of ICSU's scientific unions, CODATA, and IFLA, as well as CENDI with whom ICSTI has a new partnership relationship.
Check the ICSTI Events URL http://www.icsti.org/events.php for updates, the final programme/speaker details and registration form.
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For more information, contact the organizers Brian McMahon, Research and Development office, IUCr, bm(a)iucr.org<mailto:bm@iucr.org>, Tony Llewellyn, ICSTI Executive Director, aj.llewellyn(a)btinternet.com<mailto:aj.llewellyn@btinternet.com>, or the ICSTI Secretariat.
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Sorry for the repetition. I forgot to send details of how to register:
To register :
http://mail.elsevier-alerts.com/go.asp?/mL1HJJA/bECU001
Reaxys Mini-symposium United Kingdom
"WORKFLOW TOOLS IN CHEMICAL RESEARCH"
Thursday 22nd October 2009, British Library Conference Centre
9.30 - 10.00 Registration
10.00 - 10.10 Welcome and Brief overview of Chemical Research Output in United Kingdom
Farhana Hoque, Sr. Account Manager, Elsevier
10.10 - 10.30 Current Trends in Synthetic Chemistry: Overview of the Research Landscape
Prof. Elizabeth Hounsell
School of Biological and Chemical Sciences Birkbeck University of London
10.30 - 11.00 Use of Reaxys in synthetic chemistry research
Dr. Jonathan Goodman, Reader in Chemistry, University of Cambridge,
Department of Chemistry
11.00 - 11.15 Break
11.15 - 12.00 Innovations in Chemistry: An Elsevier Perspective
Karel Nederveen, Publishing Director Chemistry, Elsevier
12.00 - 12.45 Maximising the Synthetic Chemistry Research Workflow: Reaxys
David Evans, Director R&D Reaxys, Elsevier
12.45 - 13.15 30min Moderated Question & Answers and Closing Remarks
Karel Nederveen
13.15 Lunch
I have been asked by Elsevier to post this invitation.
Reaxys Mini-symposium United Kingdom
"WORKFLOW TOOLS IN CHEMICAL RESEARCH"
Thursday 22nd October 2009, British Library Conference Centre
9.30 - 10.00 Registration
10.00 - 10.10 Welcome and Brief overview of Chemical Research Output in
United Kingdom
Farhana Hoque, Sr. Account Manager, Elsevier
10.10 - 10.30 Current Trends in Synthetic Chemistry: Overview of the
Research Landscape
Prof. Elizabeth Hounsell
School of Biological and Chemical Sciences Birkbeck University of London
10.30 - 11.00 Use of Reaxys in synthetic chemistry research
Dr. Jonathan Goodman, Reader in Chemistry, University of Cambridge,
Department of Chemistry
11.00 - 11.15 Break
11.15 - 12.00 Innovations in Chemistry: An Elsevier Perspective
Karel Nederveen, Publishing Director Chemistry, Elsevier
12.00 - 12.45 Maximising the Synthetic Chemistry Research Workflow: Reaxys
David Evans, Director R&D Reaxys, Elsevier
12.45 - 13.15 30min Moderated Question & Answers and Closing Remarks
Karel Nederveen
13.15 Lunch
Dr. Wendy A. Warr
Wendy Warr & Associates
6 Berwick Court, Holmes Chapel
Cheshire, CW4 7HZ, England
Tel./Fax +44 (0)1477 533837
<mailto:wendy@warr.com> wendy(a)warr.com <http://www.warr.com/>
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