Connecting up post-publication commentary via integration with PubMed Commons
The launch last month of PubMed Commons, which makes it possible to post comments on PubMed for any indexed article, could mark a significant change in… Read more »
Latest posts by Matthew Cockerill (see all)
- Connecting up post-publication commentary via integration with PubMed Commons - 29th November 2013
- It just got easier to find open access research for textmining/redistribution - 7th March 2012
- OSTP publishes public comments in response to RFIs on public access to publications and data - 3rd February 2012
It just got easier to find open access research for textmining/redistribution
The challenges faced by researchers in obtaining access to published research articles for textmining purposes has been in the news again this month.… Read more »
OSTP publishes public comments in response to RFIs on public access to publications and data
The US Office of Science and Technology Policy has published the comments received as part of the latest phase of its public consultations on Public Access… Read more »
More than one hundred BioMed Central journals now have impact factors
The 2010 edition of Thomson Reuters’ Journal Citation Reports, released on June 28th 2011, provides further evidence that open access journals are… Read more »
Article cover pages revisited
In September this year, BioMed Central introduced support for article cover pages across its journal portfolio (see blog post). This feature has been… Read more »
Gregory Petsko in Genome Biology: The first 10 years – a Kindle/iPad ebook from BioMed Central
Structural biologist Gregory Petsko has contributed a thought-provoking and entertaining monthly column to the scientific journal Genome Biology every month… Read more »
BioMed Central to take on Nature in 10K charity run
On September 14th, a team of runners from BioMed Central will be taking part in a 10K race against our friends (and rivals) at Nature Publishing Group. BioMed… Read more »
Welcoming SpringerOpen – a new series of open access journals
Springer Science+Business Media, BioMed Central’s parent company and one of the world’s largest Scientific, Technical and Medical (STM) publishers,… Read more »
New and improved Impact Factors for BioMed Central journals in 2009 Journal Citation Report
The newly released 2009 edition of Thomson Reuters’ Journal Citation Report includes official Impact Factors for 77 BioMed Central journals, 54 of which… Read more »
UK government adopts Creative Commons licenses for open data: good news for public-sector researchers publishing in open access journals
The UK government has in recent years made significant amounts of government data openly available for reuse. They Work for You is an example of a website… Read more »