Open Repository had great pleasure to be invited to present at a Helmholtz open access workshop in cooperation with the German Initiative for Networked Information (DINI), hosted by Humboldt University Berlin. About DINI The development of modern information and communication technology requires a change in the information infrastructure of universities and other research institutions. The… Read more »
While UK science budgets may be facing cuts, the latest budget rounds in many African countries such as Tanzania and Kenya have made pledges to science and innovation in an effort to increase its own domestic scientific research landscape. ASTII, an African-run science initiative which gathers research data to monitor the continent’s scientific performance, is… Read more »
In September this year, BioMed Central introduced support for article cover pages across its journal portfolio (see blog post). This feature has been enthusiastically embraced by authors, who have uploaded many striking images to be used to create cover pages for their published articles. Some of our favourite examples are shown below: Supplying an image to be… Read more »
Guest blog post by Cameron Neylon, Editor-in-Chief of Open Research Computation, which is now accepting submissions. I spend a lot of my time arguing that many of the problems in the research community are caused by journals. We have too many, they are an ineffective means of communicating the important bits of research, and as… Read more »
The Health Services in Ireland deliver thousands of different health and social services in hospitals and communities across the country, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. In November they ran a well attended one day seminar at the Health Services Executive (HSE) Dr. Steevens’ Hospital, Dublin, to explore research taking place in the… Read more »
Since the Journal of Neuroscience, published by the Society for Neuroscience, decided to no longer accept supplementary files with manuscripts, publishing online supplementary material has been the subject of continuing debate in scholarly circles. BioMed Central takes the opposite stance to the Journal of Neuroscience. Not only do we allow authors to submit supplementary files… Read more »
Open Repository recently sponsored the biennial SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting 2010 in Baltimore. A scenic harbor side location provided a pleasant backdrop for an interesting international gathering of repository professionals. In addition to an interesting keynote by Michael Nielsen, quantum computation pioneer, there were sessions on open data, global repositories networks, the financial stability of… Read more »
Guest blog post by Pablo de Castro, Carlos III University Madrid, Spain A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of attending the first Open Access Africa conference (OAA2010), organised by BioMed Central and ComputerAid International at Kenyatta University, Nairobi. Here, the struggle for initial implementation of access to academic research resources was to… Read more »
1Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) was awarded university status in 1992 and is part of the largest higher education campus in the UK with one of the most extensive education centers in Europe. With a history dating back 150 years they have world-leading research in sciences, arts, education and social sciences. MMU partnered with Open Repository… Read more »