Alessandro Delfanti reminds us of a special issue of the Journal of Science Communication, which has not lost its relevance:

“The June 2008 issue of the on line, open access journal JCOM (Journal of Science Communication) addressed the relationship between web and open science. The title of this issue’s commentary is “Collaborative Web between open and closed science”, and it contains several essays from scholars such as John Wilbanks from Science Commons, who addresses the problem of releasing scientific data in the public domain, or Bora Zivkovic from PLoS One, with is take on the future of the scientific paper, together with three more comments.

From the editorial introduction by Alessandro Delfanti:

“science is changing, along with the processes involving the communication, collaboration and cooperation created through the web, yet rooted in some of its historical features of openness. The new open science feeds on the opportunity to freely contribute to knowledge production, sharing not only data, but also software and hardware. But it is open also to the outside, where citizens use Web 2.0 instruments to discuss about science in a horizontal way.”

Alessandro’s own article in JCOM 7 (2) is here.