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President Obama Nominates New National Science Foundation Director
Posted by | Aug 2nd 2013 | Comment
Friday, August 2, 2013 The White House announced that President Obama intends to nominate physicist Dr. France Anne Cordova to be the next NSF Director. We do not yet know when Dr. Cordova's...
Joining a CHORUS, Publishers Offer the OSTP a Proactive, Modern, and Cost-Saving Public Access Solution
Posted by Stephanie Hagstrom | Jun 7th 2013 | Comment
Author: Kent Anderson http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2013/06/04/joining-a-chorus-publishers-offer-the-ostp-a-proactive-modern-and-cost-saving-public-access-solution/?utm_source=feedburner&...
Scientific Publishers Offer Solution to White House's Public Access Mandate
Posted by Maryann Martone | Jun 7th 2013 | Comment
Author: Jocelyn Kaiser A group of scientific publishers today announced a plan for allowing the public to read taxpayer-funded research papers for free by linking to journals' own websites. The...
Data Sharing and Metadata Curation: Obstacles and Strategies:
Posted by Maryann Martone | Jun 6th 2013 | Comment
Future strategies for managing scientific data and metadata for basic and applied research May 29, 2013 National Science Foundation Arlington, VA The purpose of this workshop was to have focused...
Stitching science together.
Posted May 24th 2013 | Comment
Author: Cameron Neylon Journal: Nature 2009 vol 461 issue 7266 pagination 881 PMID: 19829355 PMCID: 0 ISSN: 1476-4687
Article-level metrics and the evolution of scientific impact.
Posted by Tim Clark | May 24th 2013 | Comment
Author: Cameron Neylon Wu, Shirley Journal: PLoS Biol 2009 vol 7 issue 11 pagination e1000242 PMID: 19918558 PMCID: 0 ISSN: 1545-7885
Head in the clouds: Re-imagining the experimental laboratory record for the web-based networked world.
Posted by Tim Clark | May 24th 2013 | Comment
Author: Cameron Neylon The means we use to record the process of carrying out research remains tied to the concept of a paginated paper notebook despite the advances over the past decade in web based...
Three stories about the conduct of science: Past, future, and present.
Posted by Tim Clark | May 24th 2013 | Comment
Authors: Cameron Neylon In this piece I would like to tell a few stories; three stories to be precise. Firstly I want to explain where I am, where I've come from and what has led me to the views that...
Changing computational research. The challenges ahead.
Posted by Tim Clark | May 24th 2013 | Comment
Author: Cameron Neylon Aerts, Jan Brown, C Titus Coles, Simon J Hatton, Les Lemire, Daniel Millman, K Jarrod Murray-Rust, Peter Perez, Fernando Saunders, Neil Shah, Nigam Smith, Arfon...
More than just access: delivering on a network-enabled literature.
Posted by Tim Clark | May 24th 2013 | Comment
Author: Cameron Neylon Journal: PLoS Biol 2012 vol 10 issue 10 pagination e1001417 PMID: 23109911 PMCID: 0 ISSN: 1545-7885