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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

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