Presentation given at the workshop on Scientific Writing and New Patterns of Scientific Communication at the 5th International Conference on e-Social Science, Cologne, Germany, 24-26 June 2009. Ongoing RIN funded study ‘Use and relevance of web 2.0 resources for researchers’ conducted by NCeSS / MeRC and ISSTI in 2009 with the research question: To what extent are Web 2.0 tools being adopted as a scholarly tool in different institutions and departments across the UK, in different subject fields and disciplines, and at different stages of the scholarly communications process?