Scientific social publications for digital libraries

Abstract

Social web content is an important development in the scientific workflow. In this context, scientific blogs are an important medium: they play a significant role in the timely dissemination of scientific developments, and provide useful grounds for discussion and development via the readers feedback. Blogs from the domain of economics are no exception to this practice. A possible extension to Digital Libraries (DL) services, content- and service-wise, is to enable its users access to these blogs. This paper demonstrates an approach for seamlessly integrating scientific blogs in DLs and, with the developed proof of concept application, showcases the resulting benefits for the users and DLs.