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Monday, 19th October 2009

New Essays Discuss the Future of Scholarly Publishing

A new book, The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery, is available online (full text, free) and is a tribute to the work of the computer scientist, Jim Gray, who was lost at sea in 2007. The entire book is a collection of essays and can be downloaded as a single PDF or individual parts.

Here's a link to the table of contents.

The part of the book containing essays on the future of scholarly publishing will likely be of greatest interest to ResourceShelf readers. It contains an introduction along with six essays written by a who's who in scholarly publishing and information retrieval. What follows are direct links to each essay (PDF):

+ Introduction by Lee Dirks

+ Jim Gray’s fourth paradigm and the construction of the scientific record by Clifford Lynch

+ Text in a data-centric world Paul Ginsparg

+ All aboard: toward a machine-friendly scholarly communication system by Herbert Van de Sompel, Carl Lagoze

+ The future of data policy by Anne Fitzgerald, Brian Fitzgerald, Kylie Pappalardo

+ I have seen the paradigm shift, and it is us by John Wilbanks

+ From web 2.0 to the global database by Timo Hannay

Access the Complete Table of Contents for All Four Parts of the Book

Source: Microsoft Research


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