LabArchives and the BioMed Central Research Awards
Guest blog post by Earl Beutler, President and CEO of LabArchives, sponsors of BioMed Central’s Open Data Award. This has also been posted to… Read more »
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- Social coding and scholarly communication – open for collaboration - 28th February 2013
- Version control for scientific research - 28th February 2013
- Journal of Medical Case Reports celebrates launch of Cases Database - 7th January 2013
LabArchives and BioMed Central: a new platform for publishing scientific data
Introduction “One reason that the worldwide web worked was because people reused each other’s content in ways never imagined or achieved by those who… Read more »
Countdown to the “Data Oscars”
At JISC’s September 2011 Research Integrity Conference, at which BioMed Central presented, there was much support for the seemingly novel concept of setting… Read more »
GigaScience at the Genomic Standards Consortium meeting – call for papers for a special series
Guest blog post by the editors of GigaScience. This post has also been published on the GigaScience journal blog. To tie in with this week’s Genomic… Read more »
Open Knowledge Foundation launch Panton Fellowships
Guest blog post from Laura Newman, Community Coordinator at the Open Knowledge Foundation The Open Knowledge Foundation is delighted to announce the launch of… Read more »
Connecting the evidence: an “ontology” for Threaded Publications
Unpublished research is a serious problem for evidence-based decision making in healthcare, and this was recently highlighted on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme… Read more »
Citing and linking data to publications: more journals, more examples…more impact?
Since BioMed Central introduced additional data sharing resources for authors and editors last year, there have been a number of further developments in the… Read more »
Sharing data from clinical trials: where there’s a will there’s a way
More organizations with interests in clinical research – most recently leaders in evidence-based medicine the Cochrane Collaboration – are calling for… Read more »
“Hacking the systems” of scholarly communication and personalized medicine – Q&A with Eric Schadt and John Wilbanks
One of the essays in the fascinating – and open access – text on data-intensive science, The Fourth Paradigm, envisages an age of instantaneous knowledge… Read more »
Understanding Alzheimer’s disease by data mining the Donepezil Data Repository
Large clinical trial databases represent a wealth of clinical and scientific information which could potentially hold the key to new discoveries, breakthroughs… Read more »