Monthly Archives: October 2011

Join the debate – Open Access in higher education

With open access publishing firmly in the minds of the those shaping higher education policies, join BioMed Central’s Managing Director Matthew Cockerill in a live debate on Friday 28th October from 12-2pm GMT on The Guardian website. Coinciding with Open Access Week, this sure to be lively debate is not to be missed! The discussion… Read more »

Publishing

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 funding opportunities to enable sustained African academic development. Research Africa, which is based in Cape Town, South Africa, began in 2006 as a collaborative initiative between Research Ltd (UK), the Southern African Research and Innovation… Read more »

Developing World Publishing

Journal of Biomedical Semantics at BioHackathon 2011

Guest blog post by Mark Wilkinson and Philippe Rocca-Serra   Following in the footsteps of the original Open-Bio Foundation’s “BioHackathons”, the Japanese Database Centre for Life Sciences (DBCLS) initiated a series of BioHackathons beginning in 2008. These yearly events provide an opportunity for open-source bioinformatics code projects to come together with the goal of sharing ideas… Read more »

Biology

Closing the digital divide

Rachel Astall, Corporate and Events Officer Computer Aid International, explains the importance of IT development in the developing world.  Millions of people have never even seen a computer, let alone used one. The digital divide that exists between these people and those of us who sit down with the world (at the World Wide Web!)… Read more »

Developing World Open Access Publishing