I recently attended the second annual Science Foo Camp, co-sponsored by O’Reilly and Nature. See my entry on the Science Commons blog for a more in depth look at the discussion surrounding Open Science. And, once again, many thanks to those from O’Reilly and Nature for putting together such a spectacular event, and Google for…

This just in from PopSci.com … “Will John Wilbanks Launch the Next Scientific Revolution? Using innovative copyrights and a Web 2.0 platform, John Wilbanks may just transform how scientific discoveries are made by Abby Seiff When Pasteur had his eureka moment, the processes leading up to it were barely different than Archimedes’s. The scientist hypothesized,…

From the Science Commons blog … “Today Nature Publishing Group launches Nature Precedings – a free document sharing service for the sciences. The service further enables scientists to share their preliminary findings and research in a free environment, while allowing authors to retain copyright in their work. All accepted contributions are released under a Creative…

From the Science Commons blog … Information World Review and SPARC’s Open Access Newsletter both feature pieces this month highlighting a new set of online tools recently released by Science Commons and SPARC. The toolkit aims to help authors retain critical rights over their scholarly works. From IWR’s article, “Commons copyright targets scientists”, which was…

From the Science Commons blog … Podcasts from this year’s Interactive component of SXSW are now available. Science Commons’ John Wilbanks moderated one of these very panels, exploring the social and legal ramifications of “Semantic Web” and “Web 2.0” as it applies to scientific publishing. Joining Wilbanks for this panel was Matthew Cockerill (BioMed Central),…