But first, by means of some background to this. See this post on Open Access News and also this post on McBlawg.
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Via email yesterday:-
From the end of January, all visits to the eLibrary will redirect toThe Knowledge Network at www.knowledge.scot.nhs.uk.We hope you like our new website, which includes :
a new faster search;
quicker access to journals, articles and books ;
many customisation features, enabling you to locate resources you use regularly
a new area called My Resource Space, giving you a personal webspace to save and organise resources. (Ed - this, I particularly like the sound of !!)
We apologise ifyou receive multiple copies of this email.ATHENS Administration TeamNHS Education for ScotlandClifton HouseClifton PlaceGLASGOW G3 7LDTel: 0141 352 2892
Having access to the resources available via the NHS eLibrary has been an important part of my patient advocacy work over the last two years. I very much like the look and feel of The Knowledge Network website already. It's certainly an improvement for the old sitegood although as it was. I'll definately be keeping a close eye on the new one and must make contact with the people who maintain this really really useful information web portal.
How is it possible to really look forward to attending a cool science Conference - without actually being there for the event in person?
"ScienceOnline2010, the fourth annual conference on science and the Web, will be held on January 14-17th, 2010 at Sigma Xi in the Research Triangle Park".
Quite easily, actually.
But before going into the detail, let's spin the clock back two years.
What held this one together (IMO) for those following virtually was a combination of the live video streams and chatrooms. It was also very useful to familiarise oneself (pre-event) with the online tools required to follow events in real-time.
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Most unfortunately, I was unable to follow scienceonline09 as I was unable to connect to the interwebz that weekend (problem with local ISP connection). I did however still manage to fling together a photo montage of shots taken on the day before the main event:-
What I did miss out on was all the real-time coverage online.
Whilst one really wanted to attend this years event in person, I'll happily settle with virtual attendance based upon previous experiences.
Since I missed out on a large chunk of the last one I can only imagine that with the addition of Twitter and FriendFeed(these didn't exist in early 2008) on top of live-streaming etc. this is going to be quite an experience.
The associated Flickr photo pool as below should start to fill up later in the coming week and am also looking forward to this:-
So, if you are interested in science and an annual science communication conference but can't get there in person, you now know some of the online places to check out next weekend.
"Please join us for this active three-day event to explore science on the Web. Our goal is to bring together scientists, physicians, patients, educators, students, publishers, editors, bloggers, journalists, writers, web developers, programmers and others to discuss, demonstrate and debate online strategies and tools for doing science, publishing science, teaching science, and promoting the public understanding of science".
(NHS = National Health Service)
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