Opening Science : The Evolving Guide on How the Web is Changing Research, Collaboration and Scholarly Publishing

This book is about scientific communication and cooperation technologies. It provides an overview on current Web 2.0 opportunities for scientists, gives an outlook for future developments. It explains, how the present cooperative internet tools can be used for scientific purposes and which are the practical and legal consequences for scientific and research communities. The future outlook discusses topics like Dynamic Publications and open data platform which will have a dramatic impact on scientific work and processes. In the last part, the book presents some very practical how-to s which demonstrate the setup of scientific communication platforms.