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Is this paper Open Access?
Posted by | Aug 24th 2012 | 1 Comment
Peter Murray-Rust's blog Like the environmental "green" label, not all open access is truly open access.
Mendeley’s Open API Approach Is On Course To Disrupt Academic Publishing
Posted by Maryann Martone | Aug 23rd 2012 | Comment
Author: Mike Butcher Magazine: Tech Crunch 2012
FORCE11 member Ed Hovy moving to Pittsburgh
Posted by Maryann Martone | Aug 18th 2012 | Comment
Congratulations to FORCE11 member Dr. Ed Hovy, who is en route to Pittsburgh to join the Language Technologies Institute, School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University.
Taking the Impact Factor seriously is similar to taking creationism, homeopathy or divining seriously
Posted Aug 15th 2012 | Comment
Author: Bjoern Brembs
Deadline for session suggestions for Science Online London: Monday August 27th!
Posted by Maryann Martone | Aug 15th 2012 | Comment
From Lou Woodley: We’re putting together the programme for this year’s Science Online London event and we’d like to have your input! What kind of sessions are you looking for? Much of the...
The Shiny Digital Future
Posted by Maryann Martone | Aug 13th 2012 | Comment
Authors: Mike Taylor Matt Wedel Darren Naish A collection of blogs on open access from the Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week #AcademicSpring webiste. Many more entertaining blogs on dinosaurs...
How Academic Biologists and Physicists View Science Outreach
Posted by Maryann Martone | Aug 13th 2012 | Comment
Author: Ecklund, Elaine Howard James, Sarah A Lincoln, Anne E Scholars and pundits alike argue that U.S. scientists could do more to reach out to the general public. Yet, to date, there have been few...
Publishing in the 21st century: Minimal (really) data standards
Posted by Maryann Martone | Aug 10th 2012 | 1 Comment
The following were a set of recommendations that arose from a workshop held at NIH in August 2010 as part of the Link Animal Models to Human Disease (LAMHDI), a database of animal models that allows...
Report on the "Future of Research Communications" Workshop Dagstuhl, August 15-18, 2012
Posted by Maryann Martone | Aug 4th 2012 | Comment
Authors: Ivan Herman Clark, Tim Anita de Waard