Scientific findings in a digital world: What is the genuine article?

TalkScience@BL is a café scientifique style event where an expert provides a short yet provocative introduction, followed by a discussion amongst an informed audience.

These events are for researchers from academia and industry, policy makers, research funders, publishers and all those with a stake in science.

The Scientific Findings in a Digital World talk includes a discussion with John Milbank. Topics of interest include:

• In an age of digital content and communication, does the notion of the scientific ‘article’ remain relevant? Is the 300-year old approach to structuring findings –from abstract to references – still valid in the era of the multi-media research object?
• How should new types of content such as video protocols and embedded datasets
  be peer-reviewed, and does it matter?
• Will opening access to the outputs of scientific research really improve innovation?
• Does more access to research data and information necessarily mean we are better informed?
• When it comes to communicating research findings, what are the fundamental building blocks and what is the wallpaper?

For more information, see the associated online forum at http://network.nature.com/groups/genuine_article/

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