Harnessing the web, Nature's way

LOGOS, the "journal of the world book community" has just published an article by me. It's called Harnessing the Web — Nature's way: New tools and resources to help researchers communicate and innovate.

The LOGOS blurb states: "How does one of the world's oldest and most successful scientific journals harness the Web? Maxine Clarke, publishing executive editor of Nature, spells it all out for LOGOS readers. This is an excellent example of a brilliant specialist reaching out to the general reader, a recurrent theme in LOGOS's eighteen-year history."

LOGOS is a subscription-only publication, so only the first page of the article is available at the link above. If you are interested in seeing the whole thing, drop me a line in the comments.

For more about LOGOS and what it's all about, the journal's home page is here.

Comments

[Kerrie Smith]

Interesting to see another side of you Maxine. I like the "brilliant specialist" bit. Well done. My other side is over at http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/ksmith/

[Dave Lull]

With a hook like that, how can I not want to see the whole thing?

[Debra Hamel]

I'd like to see the whole thing!

[Maxine]

Ok, I'll see what I can do -- but note, the "brilliant specialist" isn't me, it's Nature! (And I didn't write that snippet, either.....)

[Isabella]

I'm very interested in seeing the whole thing, Maxine.

I've just spent hours(?!) reading and mulling over the bit on peer review you pointed to last week. One of the journals I once copyedited for had a terrible time of the review process. Double- or single-blinded review wouldn't've made a difference to the quality of review, often so vague as to be meaningless (open review might've helped). The biggest problem was having only a very small pool of reviewers, who were very much an "old boys' club" — authors definitely felt there to be a bias, whether or not there was a measurable one. Anyway, peer review's not a factor in the environment I work in now. But 'harnessing the web' and time to publication is.