We are pleased to announce that Algorithms for Molecular Biology has been accepted for tracking by Thomson Scientific and is now on course to receive its first impact factor in June 2008. The journal has also been included in the indexing BIOSIS. The journal was launched at the start of 2006 and we are delighted… Read more »
In the latest of BioMed Central’s occasional series of guest blog items, Barbara Kirsop of the Electronic Publishing Trust for Development reports from the 5th Berlin open access conference: The Berlin 5 conference was the 5th follow-up meeting since the launch of the Berlin Declaration, and a special session on the impact of Open Access… Read more »
Something I’ve yet to mention is that we’re adding Google Analytics to all the live Open Repository sites with the 1.4.1 release. GA has recently relaunched with a new interface and we have to say that we’re really impressed with what it does and what it can do. You can (just) see from the screenshot… Read more »
We need to make an urgent upgrade to the database this week which we will be doing at 9.00am UK time this coming Thursday (27th September). All Open Repository sites will unfortunately be offline for a couple of hours although we hope the work will not take this long. Apologies for the short notice and… Read more »
On Wednesday, I was hoping that we’d have the 1.4.1 release in a stable environment by today. We’ve run over slightly. We have the document conversion tool back up and running and there are only the remaining two interface changes to make to the submission form which are being worked on as I type. Graham… Read more »
So here’s part 2 of this post I began on Wednesday. This round I wanted to take a look at what we have planned next for Open Repository. We’ve taken all the feedback regarding potential new features gathered through the user surveys and combined it with a list of all the requests and suggestions that… Read more »
BioMed Central has published a series of 17 research articles based on genetic data from the Framingham Heart Study (FHS), as a supplement to BMC Medical Genetics. The collected research, FHS 100K, is the result of cooperation among several research institutions including Boston University School of Medicine and Public Health; the National Heart, Lung and… Read more »
That’s right readers, we’re down to our last bug – the document conversion tool has unconfigured itself – and two final small changes to the interface. We’ve been terminating our bugs with extreme prejudice with five coming off the list yesterday and expect these final fixes to be finished by the end of today. All… Read more »
It’s been a few months now since our initial Open Repository customer surveys, so hopefully it’s not too late to thank everyone who took part. We released three surveys: one for set up processes and communication, one looking at user features and one looking at admin features. Each one asked for comments about how things… Read more »
When things are quiet here it usually means that we’re all pretty busy. Either that or on holiday. But for now we’re just plain busy. The last two months have seen the team working hard to complete the upgrade to DSpace 1.4.1 and we’re very close to being able to make the test site publicly… Read more »