Friday, September 25, 2009

NEST on Knol

NEST (Never Ending Story) is the knol which has become an increasingly popular venue for publications including ones that look a lot like standard peer reviewed journals. More generally, a NEST starts as an embryonic paper. With iteration and with the help of co-author and reader suggestions, it incubates a mature manuscript. Unlike a blog, it is not just a snapshot of a narrative perspective in a sequence of snapshots, but a single integrated document.

We are using the knol as the infrastructure for our NESTs, we can hope that academic publishers will provide vehicles of similar functionality.

Important Statement from

HMS - Countway Library of Medicine - Director's Blog
Harvard Medical School's Countway Library of Medicine and the new frontiers in biomedical computing

http://hmscountway.blogspot.com/2009/09/never-ending-stories.html

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