How appropriate for the 8th European Biophysics Congress to be held in a city like Budapest, the so-called “Queen of the Danube”. Here is a place unified at the banks of this great river—Buda to west, Pest to the east—and here is where Biology meets Physics, unified in a single discipline. Like the city itself… Read more »
Following a review by the Literature Selection Technical Review Committee, four BioMed Central titles have recently been accepted for indexing in MEDLINE: Journal of Nanobiotechnology, Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research, Parasites and Vectors and Reproductive Health. The inclusion of these journals in MEDLINE gives an indication of their growing prominence and reputation in their… Read more »
The generation of unprecedented amounts of genomic-scale data on a daily basis has created an awareness of the need for more effective interaction between biological researchers and the bioinformatics tools they use. A comprehensive report from the 2nd Database Center for Lifescience (DCBLS) BioHackathon, held in March 2009, was published last month in Journal of… Read more »
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), the main Dutch science funding body, has launched a €1 million open access fund to help Dutch scientists establish new open access journals or convert existing journals to open access. This initiative is the fruit of a wider open access initiative that started in 2010 when the NWO… Read more »
2On 17th June BioMed Central held a Publishing Open Data Working Group meeting, proposed in the spring, in London, UK. This post is a summary report from the meeting, including the next steps for the stakeholders involved. The meeting has also been reported by Alex Ball on the Digital Curation Centre blog. Many thanks to… Read more »
I was very pleased to attend the Repositories and CRIS: working smartly together event that was held at the University of Nottingham last month. The event looked at the interaction of repositories and CRIS systems (Current Research Information Systems). It was a well attended and interactive event with some great presentations on the current status… Read more »
BioMed Central recently launched Open Access Africa, a collection of initiatives, including free Foundation Membership, designed to increase the output and visibility of scientific research published by learning institutes in low-income countries. Kwame Nkrumah University Of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana, has recently been announced as the first African Foundation Member. KNUST is the only university… Read more »
At the recent Open Repositories 2011 conference in Austin, one of the highlights was the Developer Challenge sponsored by DevSCI and coordinated by Mahendra Mahey. Open Repository’s entry demonstrated how the RESTful API module for DSpace can harvest communities and collections in DSpace and be browsed in real-time in Joomla. We also demonstrated the ability… Read more »