I think we should start recognizing more alternate information sources, such as blogs and stack exchange (i.e. attribute scientific credit and recognition to those posts).
Of course traditional scientific publishing has its place (including the care for methodology and source citation)... but many people will search directly those websites instead, so clearly it's an important emerging source of information and discovery.
Of course traditional scientific publishing has its place (including the care for methodology and source citation)... but many people will search directly those websites instead, so clearly it's an important emerging source of information and discovery.