Reminder for those who are into science blogging: you have two more days to participate in PLoS ONE Second Birthday Synchroblogging Competition, it is right time to submit your posts! You can find here how. Still, you have time to vote in the 2008 Edublog Awards. Check out nominations, there …
Category: academia
Creative Commons birthday in Serbia, at University of Belgrade
Creative Commons, which produces licenses implemented in 50 different jurisdictions until now, including Serbian project, on December 15th celebrates its 6th Birthday around the world. Regarding this occasion, Creative Commons Serbia, Wikimedia Serbia, and Free Software Network Serbia, organises at the Faculty of Mathematics, of the University of Belgrade (room …
what is twine and how does it contribute to free full text databases?
If you’re not familiar with Twine – it is web 2.5 (towards web 3.0) tool that keeps track of your interests by collecting online content, brings it all together by the topic of your interest, so you can have it all in one place and share it with anyone you …
The first international Open Access day
Today is the world’s the first- ever Open Access day, celebrating the growth of international movement that uses the Internet to throw open the locked archives, libraries, online databases, information flow in general, that once hid and restricted knowledge. One of the definitions of ‘open’ denotes ‘a piece of knowledge …
ScienceOnline ’09 – exploring science on Web
Remember Science blogging conference this January? Well, next year free three-day event ScienceOnline09, will be held from 16-18 January 2009, at Research Triangle Park, NC. This annual blogging science conference brings together scientists, educators, bloggers, students, journalists to collaborate, discuss, demonstrate online strategies and software for promoting public and better …
my response to survey “don’t have Facebook profile – you’re not “in” “
Recently, I’ve read in media the results of the survey by “xy” marketing agency (don’t want to advertise them here) who did research of the usage of Facebook in Serbia. This is my response and strong argument against superficial output without research corpus statements of the author, agency, and unverified …
open access, electronic resources in networked web 2.0 world
Two days ago I was giving a talk at the International Scientific Conference, University of Belgrade (25-27th Sept). I have uploaded slides of that talk, for anyone who are interested in OA, e-resources, the usage of social media and software in education. Also, I created temporary wiki page that I …