The commonly held information was far more influential than the unshared information, to the detriment of the group's ultimate decision" (Cass Sunstein, 2006: Infotopia, p. 83) elcome to the second issue of the Open Access eJournal of eDemocracy and Open Government! Scholarly communication is about researchers publishing and disseminating their work using a number of channels, including books and journals, conferences, proceedings, but other web-based tools commonly associated with social networking (e.g.twitter
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.