At our "cyberinfrastructure day" yesterday, I met a colleague from the UNM library. She approached me with question about how to publish some research she had done on some aspect of library operations in her work. (Sorry I forget the details.) Her specific desires: (A) to get the information out there without waiting for peer review and (B) to publish in a form that will allow others to build on what she starts. She is also a little concerned about (C) credit, but not as much as A and B. She was thinking wikipedia when she approached me, but I thought not the best venue, since it's mostly original research that she wants to publish. A publicly editable Google Doc or just a wiki on wikispaces or other generic wiki site is an option. But I figured I'd ask library science friends on here if there's a better venue to reach a Library2.0 audience? Thanks! - Steve Koch

I would suggest writing a knol (http://knol.google.com/k). It's citeable and offers reasonably good metrics. PLoS is already using knols as a publishing platform for their Currents journals (http://www.plos.org/journal...). - Jan Jensen

The Digital Libraries section of ArXiV could be an option that would cover A and C. - Martin Fenner

Thanks! Great ideas. I will send her a link to this thread. Thanks! - Steve Koch

Exactly the kind of thing we are building Knowledgeblogs for http://knowledgeblog.org Can issue DOI's etc. Please get in touch if you might be interested in setting one up. Also check http://taverna.knowledgeblog.org and http://ontogenesis.knowledgeblog.org for examples and http://process.knowledgeblog.org for more about how we go about it - Daniel Swan