Digital Science | Shaking Up Science

"It is for this reason that we at Digital Science have decided, following on from the re-launch of our blogging platform last year to create a new, ever so slightly experimental blog called ‘Perspectives’. The purpose of this new exciting forum is to bring together a series of diverse voices representing all the major stakeholders in scholarly communication. By creating a place to think and write for publishers, librarians, academics, funders and everybody else involved in scientific communication, we hope to foster understanding of each others perspectives in order to have more meaningful conversations about how to address the issues that affect us all. For 6 months, The Digital Science outreach and communications team have been working to bring content to our guest blog on a series of issues ranging from the increasing trend towards greater funder mandates and how that ultimately drives the needs of authors and readers, the risks and opportunities offered by open data for both individual researchers and for learned societies, and the future of social networks for scientists. We’ve even discussed what the Norwegian Research Council have against hybrid open access publishing and wondered why librarians and postdocs apparently know so little about one another ... So today, we’re proud to announce the launch of the Perspectives blog, but we’re also asking for a favour. We’d like to recruit a number of volunteer bloggers from among librarians, funders, publishers, academics, technology venders, consultants, and just about anybody else with an interest in scholarly communication. If you’ve got something to say, whether as a one off post or perhaps as a regular contributor, drop us an email at perspectives-blog@digital-science.com ..."