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SciVee: first impressions

I’ve been busy the past few days and not paying full attention to the information stream from the web, but I kept seeing this word SciVee.

I can’t summarise it any better than Deepak: “SciVee provides scientists, especially authors with a platform to essentially set up video podcasts, or as they call them, PubCasts, around a publication.” It’s built in partnership with PLoS, amongst others and provides channels for several PLoS journals.

Just got around to watching the featured pubcast, Structural Evolution of the Protein Kinase–Like Superfamily and I’m really impressed with the concept. SciVee is also discussed by Bora, John and Frank and is tagged at del.icio.us and technorati.

Of course, some scientists might be a bit shy about appearing in a video. This conjures up amusing images of young, photogenic Ph.D. students hiding from the PI with a newfound enthusiasm for videocasts.

Written by nsaunders

August 21, 2007 at 3:16 pm

Posted in bioinformatics, computing, multimedia, web resources

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  1. Hello,
    You should also check this site. It is similar but with different idea. http://www.dnatube.com
    With Regards,
    siere

    siere

    September 9, 2007 at 8:19 am

  2. I wonder if public librarians will find this SciVee useful in helping students find resources to plan science fair experiments or to compare their own experiments with those of the professors.

    Mary Beth Train

    December 4, 2007 at 5:22 am

  3. I’d imagine that a lot of these video sites will become excellent educational resources for students.

    nsaunders

    December 4, 2007 at 10:21 am

  4. [...] Scivee.tv is similar to JOVE, except that it has partnered with the National Science Foundation, the Public Library of Science (PLoS) and the San Diego Superdupercomputer Center (SDSC). See the Overview of SciVee here, by Phil Bourne. Videos can be stand-alone, or associated with open-access papers already published. So for example, you can see a video for Ten Simple Rules for getting Grants, which accompanies the Ten Simple Rules series, blogged previously on nodalpoint. Scivee and JOVE have been extensively blogged by Neil and others. [...]

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