science publisher blogging

LibraryStuff reports that Nature is blogging.

Action Potential is a blog by the editors of Nature Neuroscience

we gradually realized that we ought to offer some sort of simple, easy, low-threshold feedback and dialogue mechanism for our audience. "Action Potential" is going to be it. We'll be posting links to new NN papers as they go online, so you have a chance to comment on them easily. We'll try to stir up discussion about our editorials. We'll offer links to material published elsewhere that we find interesting. We'll blog about exciting findings in neuroscience, science politics, developments in science publishing, etc, etc. Anything neuroscience may show up on the blog, and we'll always invite your comments. We look forward to hearing from you.

Free Association, the Nature Genetics blog

the bandwagon in science blogging has lots of room. As noted by Richard Gallagher in this editorial  in The Scientist, the life sciences in particular have been late to embrace blogging as a way to spark interesting conversation, promote more of a sense of community among scientists, and, possibly, to increase awareness of the process and substance of science among non-scientists.

So, with a great deal of excitement, we are launching Free Association...

What might you find here? Here’s some of what we have in mind:

• Commentary on papers published in Nature Genetics or in other journals. We’re particularly interested in inviting authors to follow up on points in their work that may not have found space in the formal manuscript.
• Links to and commentary on genetics (and geneticists) in the news.
• Updates on books and websites of interest to the community.
• Notes on editorial policies that may not have made it into one of journal’s printed editorials.
• Announcements of editors’ attendance at meetings, which may also generate posts to the blog.
• Round-ups of genetics coverage in the popular press and in the blogosphere (for better or worse).
• And…no doubt some things we haven’t yet thought of.

Nascent - Nature Publishing Group's blog on web technology and science

Our mission is to apply web technologies in new ways that promote the discovery and dissemination of scientific knowledge. Along with colleagues from other parts of Nature (some of whom will also be blogging here from time to time), we are the people who brought you Connotea and the Nature Podcast.  We also work on several scientific database-oriented services such as the Signaling Gateway and the Cell Migration Gateway.

Err Nature, you might want to clean up your default page at http://blogs.nature.com/

Chris Leonard has left Elsevier, so Computing Chris has gone silent.  There is supposed to be an Elsevier blog to support the Elsevier Editorial System, but it is password-protected.  http://atgdev.elsevier.com/blogs/ees/

Rahel Sidi of Elsevier (Engineering Information) blogs at Really Simple Sidi.

Previously:
December 2, 2005  Nature: free your data, blog about your science, and use Web Services
August 27, 2005  more about science blogs
August 26, 2005  life science bloggers

Comments

[Mark Ireland]

Just to let you know that the Elsevier blog to support the Elsevier Editorial System is now in a pilot phase and is no longer password-protected (this was just a temporary measure whilst it was user-tested). The official URL is http://yourees.elsevier.com/blog/ .