Last week, Pierre Lindenbaum made the bold move of creating a bookmarklet that would find the author's email in the HTML version of a paper and automatically create an email asking for an offprint (authors are generally happy to send copies of their own papers - at least they don't have to pay the postage any more).

A free, online, global network of Doctors and Researchers in Life Sciences Mission: To provide researchers in Life Sciences and Physicians with a scientific community online, where they can be able to interact with each other. Prometeo Network is a trusted network of connections where information and resources are attainable to every Member.

openacademia.org is an open source publication metadata repository for scientific communities. Our goal is to allow scientists to collect, organize and disseminate publications more efficiently using a combination of novel semantic technologies. openacademia operates on an open source, open data, open documentation principle. Unlike metadata stores maintained by publishers, openacademia gives complete access to your data in the form of RSS, RDF and APIs. Unlike Citeseer or DBLP, openacademia is software you can install and run locally and use it to connect to any other data source around the world. For the technologically minded, our system relies on the idea of dynamically converting BibTex files - a standard for publication metadata - into news channels, following the same format that is used to syndicate and push news items to readers across the Web (RSS). The name for this new standard is BuRST, Bibliographies Using RSS Technology.

Microformats add value to the data you explore and publish on the web. On this site you can find advice, markup and a blog to start using microformats in biology. hGene A working draft for a gene microformat The hGene microformat allows you to add additional semantic information to web pages containing gene data. This allows visitors to use that data in a more flexible way.

KForge Demo is a digital open knowledge community based around this site. It is built on the KForge system and aims to provide you with the facilities and tools to create everything from a new textbook to maps. The only requirement to host a project on this site is that it be open. Tools provided to assist you in your project include: * Wikis, Message forums and mailing lists to help you collaborate. * Content management systems and other publication mechanisms. * Storage facilities and webspace including versioning systems and databases. * A project framework with mechanisms to control access and structure work.