The Journal of Biomedical Informatics (JBI), will soon be publishing their special issue on Semantic Biomedical Mashups (can you fit any more buzzwords into a Call For Papers?!). Ben Good and friends have submitted a paper on their Entity Describer which extends connotea using some Semantic Web goodness. They'd appreciate your comments on their submitted manuscript over at i9606. As Ben says, their pre-publication turns out to be an interesting experiment "figuring out how blogging might fit into the academic publishing landscape". If this interests you, get commenting now!
Update: Just spotted this interesting graphic of the Elsevier / Evilsevier logo (snigger), who are the publishers of JBI...
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What, exactly, is the point of Elsevier?
I've been waiting for this special issue on semantic biomedical mashups for a while now. The latest scheduled production date is September 2008, which makes it exactly one whole year from Call for papers to publication. Damn thats quick, faster than a speeding glacier! Those hot hot research results must be popping of the printing press at an alarming rate!
Which makes me wonder, what, exactly is the point of Elsevier? Why does it take them so long to publish? Some, in the Open-Access publishing community have suggested this kind of publishing is a slow and expensive way to assign copyright to information that should be in the public domain, while lining shareholders pockets. As a young scientist, I'm completey baffled as to why it should take this long to shuffle a few emails and Word documents around the internet in order to publish.
Anyway, enough of the griping. Every now and then, a pre-print pops up in the Journal of Biomedical informatics feed from PubMed. So while you're waiting for Elsevier, you can read one of the first papers in the special issue below.
Carole Goble and Robert Stevens (year unknown) State of the nation in data integration for bioinformatics, Journal of Biomedical Informatics, officially published sometime before the heat-death of the Universe (but don't hold your breath). DOI:10.1016/j.jbi.2008.01.008, pubmed.gov/18358788