At the ISMB conference we met Anna Divoli, a postdoc at the University of California, Berkeley, who showed us the BioText Search Engine, which she was presenting as a poster, and has recently published. I came across it briefly earlier this month thanks to the blog of medical librarian David Rothman, who described it as… Read more »
From: dspace-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net; on behalf of; Robert Tansley Hi all, The committer group is pleased to announce the addition of a new member, Graham Triggs from BioMed Central. Graham has been a very active member of the DSpace technical community, on the lists and on the IRC channel, and has made numerous bug reports and… Read more »
We are pleased to announce the launch of the BioMed Central Research Awards for 2007. These awards recognise excellence in research that has been made universally accessible by open access publication in one of BioMed Central’s journals. Two awards of $5000 (US) will be made — one for biology research, and one for medical research…. Read more »
We are pleased to announce the launch of 3 new independent journals: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in Mental Health Editor-in-Chief: Jörg M. FegertCAPMH is aimed at clinicians and researchers focused on improving the knowledge base for the diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of mental health conditions in children and adolescents. Nonlinear Biomedical Physics Editors-in-Chief:… Read more »
Using PubMed’s "Limits" tab, it is easy to filter searches by date of publication, and also by whether an article has a link to an online full text, and whether that online full text is freely available. One handy side effect of this is that it is possible to search PubMed for articles in the… Read more »
Right, time to jot down some notes about what’s happening with this upgrade. We’ll start from the beginning, so first a word or few about DSpace (with apologies for the necessary repetition of facts many of you will already be aware of). DSpace is the code that powers Open Repository. When BioMed Central decided to… Read more »
In recent months, a number of events in Africa have focussed on open access and access to the internet in the developing world. It is exciting to see this clear commitment to creating an infrastructure for access to the internet throughout Africa, and to open access. Eve Gray writes on her blog, Gray Area, about… Read more »
If access to the literature is something which affects your work in a low-income country, we’d like to hear from you. As part of the launch of our Open Access and the developing world portal, BioMed Central is inviting researchers and practitioners working in developing countries to send in a photograph or video relating to… Read more »
BioMed Central today launched a new portal focused on Open access and the developing world. This new website calls attention to the benefits of open access to the scientific and medical literature for the developing world. Open access and the developing world brings together the latest relevant research articles from BioMed Central’s open access journals,… Read more »
We are pleased to announce that the International Journal of Health Geographics has been accepted for tracking by Thomson Scientific as part of the Social Science Citation Index and is on course to receive its first official impact factor in 2010. The journal already has an impressive unofficial impact factor of 2.15. A full list… Read more »