Science blogs have been around for at least 20 years and have become an important part of science communication. So are there any fundamental issues that need fixing?Barriers to Entry Blogging platforms are mature at this point, and the technology is not imposing barriers to entry for most people.
Almost exactly two years ago, <strong> CrossRef </strong> invited a number of people to discuss unique identifiers for researchers ( <strong> CrossRef Author ID meeting </strong> ). One year ago Thomson Reuters launched <strong> ResearcherID </strong> ( <strong> Thomson Scientific launches ResearcherID to uniquely identify authors </strong> ). And two months ago Phil Bourne and Lynn Fink wrote about this topic in a <strong> PLoS Computational </strong>
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is currently recommending public access of all papers from NIH-funded research. <strong> Fewer than 5% of research papers </strong> have gone this route since the policy went into effect in 2005.