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January 22, 2008, 02:31 PM ET
Tired of 'Science by Press Release'? Try Science by Blog
A group of science bloggers has created a site that allows researchers to share blog posts about peer-reviewed research in one place.
ResearchBlogging.org, launched yesterday, is essentially a blog aggregator. Blogging academics (or, apparently, laymen interested in peer-reviewed research) register their blogs with the site. Bloggers can flag certain posts they write about peer-reviewed research by inserting a snippet of code. These posts then appear on the main page of the site, replete with proper academic citation.
The idea, writes co-creator Dave Munger, is to allow researchers to learn about new peer-reviewed research without relying on press releases or news reports.
Each post itself is peer-reviewed — registered bloggers on ResearchBlogging.org can report post that don’t fall in line with the site’s guidelines.
This, evidently, is part of the growing effort to ease communication in the research community, à la Big Think.—Hurley Goodall
Categories: Social-Networking, Research
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