Free Swag and Other Things not to Miss Out on at ISMB
This week a few of us here at BioMed Central are off to Boston for ISCB’s annual ISMB conference and its Special Interest Group (SIG) meetings. First… Read more »
Journal Development Manager at BioMed Central
Latest posts by Amye Kenall (see all)
- In Review: a new way to open up the submissions and peer review process - 18th October 2018
- Developing standards for the microbial dark matter - 27th January 2015
- Making Sense of Big Data: Standards in Genomic Sciences - 8th December 2014
GigaScience: Helping reviewers get credit through Publons
Being open is what GigaScience is all about – open access, open data, open peer review; giving credit to authors and peer reviewers. But now GigaScience peer… Read more »
Implementing Reproducible Research: the Role of Publishers. An interview with Iain Hrynaszkiewicz, Peter Li, and Scott Edmunds
Implementing Reproducible Research, recently released by CRC Press and edited by Victoria Stodden, Friedrich Leisch, and Roger Peng, clearly describes the… Read more »
Contamination and the 1000 Genome Project
According to a paper published today in BioData Mining, contamination of genomes from the 1000 Genome Project was found in a significant amount of raw data… Read more »
The Force 11 Resource Identification Initiative and the Article of the Future
With the literature available to researchers growing—indeed, in the last decade the amount of articles published increased by around 44%[i]—the way in which… Read more »
Moving Forward: BioMed Central’s open access license is being updated to CC-BY 4.0
Back in August we announced that all data published in BioMed Central articles would be published under the Creative Commons CC0 public domain waiver for data.… Read more »
Changes in CC-BY — version 4.0
What follows is a guest blog on the new CC-BY 4.0 license written by Puneet Kishor, Manager, Science and Policy Data at Creative Commons. CC… Read more »
How to Share Data with a Statistician
This is a guest blog posted on behalf of Jeff Leek, an assistant professor in the Biostatistics Department of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public… Read more »
Cool Things the NHS is Doing with Data
The UK’s National Health Service (NHS)—the fifth biggest organization in the world after the US Army, Chinese Army, Wal-Mart, and McDonalds—has more than… Read more »
Discussion on Data Sharing @SpotOnLondon
This Friday Chris Taylor (@chrisftaylor) and I (@AmyeKenall) will be chairing a session at SpotOn London on data sharing—specifically, how to develop a… Read more »