My original title for this post was going to be ‘Get your rocks off’ but I wasn’t sure how many of you would get the reference – it’s a line from a song by Primal Scream. Still, there are many things that rock / Rock: the ‘Scream for one, archiving (especially self-archiving) and our brand… Read more »
Here’s a screengrab of the 1.4.1 release home page I’ve just pulled from our test site.
As the sun sets on the week a moment’s reflection to see where we’ve got to. The move to the new severs was virtually seamless all things considered and all the sites were back up and running by midday after some necessary and expected last minute tweaking. It may not feel as if much has… Read more »
Last week the team headed off in a south westerly direction to the somewhat sumptuous surroundings of Hewlett Packard labs in Bristol; the venue for third UK & Ireland DSpace User Group meeting. Along with the opportunity to catch up on some local goings on in the DSpace universe it was also an opportunity to… Read more »
All being well (avoiding any last minute virtual spanners) tonight we’ll complete the last stage of our server upgrade. For the past two and a half years we’ve been running on Windows servers, the same technology used by the other BMC sites. Although Windows isn’t the native environment on which to run DSpace, it is… Read more »
1We’re always looking for ways to make it easier to find open access research from BioMed Central’s journals. That’s why we have created a custom button for users of the Google Toolbar for Firefox or Internet Explorer, which makes it easy to search BioMed Central’s content right from the browser toolbar. What’s more, if… Read more »
1The most highly accessed article on BioMed Central’s most viewed articles page recently surpassed 100,000 accesses. Bellomo et al.’s article, published in Critical Care in 2004, presented the first consensus definition of acute renal failure and followed a two day conference of the Acute Dialysis Quality Initiative (ADQI) Group. It has been cited more than… Read more »
Google Scholar is a great free resource for finding where a published article has been cited. It already identified roughly as many citations, for most articles, as commercial services such as Web of Science and Scopus. But according to Peter Brantley, of the Digital Library Federation, Google Scholar is about to become significantly more comprehensive,… Read more »