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Micropublications: a Semantic Model for Claims, Evidence, Arguments and Annotations in Biomedical Communications
Posted by | May 23rd 2013 | Comment
Authors:Clark, Tim Ciccarese, Paolo Carole Goble The Micropublications semantic model for scientific claims, evidence, argumentation and annotation in biomedical publications, is presented here....
PLoS: Accelerating Science Award Program
Posted by Tim Clark | May 2nd 2013 | Comment
The Accelerating Science Award Program (ASAP) recognizes individuals who have used, applied, or remixed scientific research — published through Open Access — to make a difference in science, medicine...
SPARC FAQ for the Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act (FASTR)
Posted Apr 26th 2013 | Comment
The bipartisan Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act (FASTR) was introduced in Congress on February 14, 2013. Co-sponsored in the Senate by Sens. John Cornyn (R-TX) and Ron Wyden (D-OR)...
Top Ten Reasons To Not Share Your Code (and why you should anyway)
Posted Apr 17th 2013 | Comment
Author: Randall J. LeVeque Publisher: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics http://www.siam.org/news/news.php?id=2064&goback=.gde_112393_member_232769759
NPG to launch Scientific Data to help scientists publish and reuse research data
Posted Apr 5th 2013 | Comment
NPG to launch Scientific Data to help scientists publish and reuse research data PRESS RELEASE FROM NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP 4 April 2013 Contact: Rachel Scheer Corporate Public Relations,...
Input requested: Consultation on directions for Future and Emerging Technologies research
Posted by Maryann Martone | Mar 29th 2013 | 1 Comment
Topic Refinement: objective & guiding criteria As part of our ongoing effort to chart and shape the evolving landscape of future and emerging technologies, we have launched a public...
Why may Google textmine but Scientists may not?
Posted by Maryann Martone | Mar 15th 2013 | Comment
Author: Piwowar, Heather "Check out the robot.txt files for PMC for /pmc/articles/ and notice that GoogleBot is allowed, Bing and a few others are allowed, but User-Agent:* (the rest of us) are not...
A survey of the neuroscience resource landscape: perspectives from the neuroscience information framework.
Posted by Maryann Martone | Mar 2nd 2013 | Comment
Authors: Cachat, Jonathan Bandrowski, Anita Grethe, Jeffery S Gupta, Amarnath Astakhov, Vadim Imam, Fahim Larson, Stephen D Martone, Maryann E The number of available neuroscience resources (...
Chaotic Nihilists and Semantic Idealists
Posted by Jonathan Cachat | Feb 10th 2013 | Comment
Author: Alistair Croll Series: Datanami 2013
Project Aims to Bring PLoS-Style Openness to the Humanities
Posted by Maryann Martone | Jan 29th 2013 | Comment
Author: Jennifer Howard Open access isn't just for scientists. Opening up research is an idea that appeals to more and more humanists and social scientists. The trick has been how those fields can...