This week for the MLA CE course on web 2.0 tools, I created a wiki, Scholarly Publishing in Biomedical Research Science and the NIH Public Access Policy, to help biomedical researcher authors (and those who support them) to navigate publisher policies with regard to the new NIH Public Access Policy.
My hope is that the publisher policies I have listed will be updated as policies change. However, since there is need for this information at many institutions, I hope that a new (and more robust) resource will be created out there somewhere. It would be fabulous to harness a subset of what is available in Sherpa/RoMEO--bypassing individual searches.
Finally, this week's question: " What is the difference between a blog and a wiki? What sort of things might be better suited for a blog and better suited for a wiki?"
Wikis are multiple linked web pages that are built using software that allows for multiple people to edit content over a period of time. Wikis are great for collaboration, sharing ideas, FAQs, and sharing content that may not me time sensitive, like explanations of processes, meeting coordination, collections of presentations. Also, since wikis are generally ordered by subject instead of date of creation of content (since content is created throughout), currency is not a primary focus. One wiki I use for example at work is the National Center for Biomedical Ontology Public Wiki.
Blogs, while they may be authored by many people, are better for communicating content from a small group to a large one. Fewer people are involved in the primary content and primary authors are identified. A blog is website where entries are commonly displayed in reverse chronological order, newest items displayed most prominently. Blogs are great for communicating timely information about a collection of similarly themed topics. Blogs can be mini news pages; many libraries use them to collect and display news bits. One blog I read regularly is Peter Suber's Open Access News blog.
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