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Science 3.0: The future of science in the internet

Details: Created on 19 March 2009

The concept of "Science 2.0" was introduced to describe the new generation of online-based tools for researchers allowing easier data sharing, collaboration and publishing. The next wave would be "Science 3.0". My updated version of the manuscript "Science 3.0: Corrections to the "Science 2.0" paradigm" is available at http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.2522 (11 January 2013) . It critically discusses the current state of "Science 2.0" and proposes essential corrections to this paradigm. Please contact me with comments / suggestions by email. Here is the previous (outdated) version entitled "Science 3.0: The future of science in the internet" .

The links bellow refer to the current state of online science, the so-called "Science 2.0" (unrelated to the "Science 3.0" manuscript)

Scientific forums. Historically, online discussions started from mailing lists (now rarely used) and forums (still actively used today). There are several successful forums in the field of molecular biology, each of the forums below having about 20,000 registered users:

Personal blogs. Personal blogs now tend to aggregate into large systems of peer-reviewed (!) or semi peer-reviewed blogging communities. Below are the links to main hubs of scientific blogs.

Brainstorming hubs. Currently there are not many of them, probably because the methodology has yet to be developed. They offer money for solutions of realistic problems such as patent data search or commercially relevant developments by connecting problem solvers with problem providers. Here are several selected web sites: ideaconnection.com, innocentive.com, ninesigma.com, innoget.com, bluepatent.com.

Scientific (social) networking. This is a trend in online science, which follows a general trend of social networking on the web. Main sites which already connect about a million of scientists are LinkedIn.com, ResearchGate.net, Academia.edu, Nature Network and Mendeley.com. A list including some less known sites can be found here.

Selection of interesting discussions about Science 2.0: