Daily Archives: Thursday, February 28, 2013

Social coding and scholarly communication – open for collaboration

Iain Hrynaszkiewicz

Innovation in how social online tools and their features develop is frequently defined and driven by the network’s users. A collaboration between BioMed Central, some of our authors and editors, and the team behind a powerful social software development platform aims to stimulate innovation in scholarly communication. The ‘social coding’ website, GitHub, was founded in… Read more »

Open Access Publishing Technology
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Version control for scientific research

Iain Hrynaszkiewicz

Guest blog post from Dr Karthik Ram (KR) and Dr C. Titus Brown (CTB) who have been working with BioMed Central on our recently announced collaboration with the social coding repository, GitHub. We live in an increasingly collaborative era, where the Internet enables distance collaboration almost trivially – not just with e-mail and videoconferencing, but… Read more »

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