Open Access Africa 2011: A brief report
Guest blog by Pablo de Castro, GrandIR, speaker at Open Access Africa 2011 The first Open Access Africa conference, which was held in November 2010 at Jomo… Read more »
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- Open Access Africa 2011: A brief report - 29th November 2011
- Views of an Open Access Africa 2011 delegate: Open access and the unlimited benefits - 25th November 2011
- Open Access Africa 2011: Speaker presentations, images and poster abstracts available online - 11th November 2011
Views of an Open Access Africa 2011 delegate: Open access and the unlimited benefits
Guest article by Dr. Tobias Innocent Ndubuisi Ezejiofor, Federal University of Technology, Owerri, Nigeria. The benefits of open access are unlimited. As… Read more »
Open Access Africa 2011: Speaker presentations, images and poster abstracts available online
Open Access Africa 2011, a BioMed Central and Computer Aid International event, was hosted at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST),… Read more »
Post-genomic outlooks on neuropsychiatric disease
Two forward-looking views of research into neuropsychiatric disease and its treatment are published today in BMC Biology. Aiden Corvin predicts how… Read more »
Open Access Week 2011: A global event deserves a global celebration
Open Access Week, now entering its fifth year, is a global event which promotes the benefits of open access publishing. This year, BioMed Central will… Read more »
World Sight Day
The magnitude of blindness-related problems in developing countries is often overlooked among reports on epidemics or other public health problems. However, an… Read more »
A platform providing funding opportunities to researchers
Guest post from Deborah-Fay Ndlovu, a senior journalist for Research Africa. Research Professional Africa is a subscriber-based database with over 5,000… Read more »
Makerere University researchers highlight important African health issues
The launch of BioMed Central’s Open Access Africa publishing initiatives earlier this year has increased the amount of high quality research by African… Read more »
ASBCB supports open access in the development of bioinformatics and computational biology in Africa
Guest post from Associate Professor Nicola Mulder, President of the African Society for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (ASBCB) The mission… Read more »
Celebrating International Literacy Day: an overview of global literacy rates
According to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), there are nearly four billion literate people in the world which… Read more »