Computer Aid International highlighted its innovative ZubaBox at BioMed Central’s recent Research Awards. This unique solar powered Internet hub is a shipping container housing one computer and 11 monitors with access to the Internet provided via satellite link. The ZubaBox was created to allow Internet connectivity in the vast areas of Africa that do not… Read more »
Claire Bundy, Open Repository Specialist, is the second member of the Open Repository Team to become a member of the DSpace Community Advisory Team (DCAT). Our service is a long-standing registered service provider for DuraSpace, and this further shows Open Repository’s commitment to helping to advance the DSpace software and developing resources/tools for DSpace users…. Read more »
Open Repository is pleased to announce the University of Bedfordshire as a new customer, and welcome them into the OR community. The University of Bedfordshire is the largest higher education institution in the county and has gained national recognition for its achievements in widening participation and teaching. The university has also established eight research institutes,… Read more »
Well yet another fantastic event took place at the recent Annual ALA conference. Open Repository just had to attend again and of course, New Orleans is a beautiful city as well! The Annual Conference is the world’s largest event for the library community, bringing together more than 25,000 librarians, educators, authors, literacy experts and illustrators. … Read more »
The European Commission (EC) has announced a consultation on ‘scientific information in the digital age’. The consultation is running until 9th September 2011 so if you’re as interested in open access and open data as we are then the EC wants to hear your opinion on the following issues: how scientific articles could become more accessible to researchers and society at large how… Read more »
Some of the many pioneering researchers and clinicians who chose to publish open access research with BioMed Central discuss their research topics and share their comments about the importance of the Internet and open access to scientific and medical research. If you have published with us and would like to have your profile featured please… Read more »
Figure 1: Women as a share of total science researchers in 2007 or latest available year. Calculations based on head counts (HC) of full-time equivalents (FTEs). Shocking statistics, recently released by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), have uncovered a grossly under-developed scientific resource lying in abundance within the arms of each low-income nation:… Read more »
“The failure of biology to identify the molecular causes of disease has led to disappointment in the rate of development of new medicines.” Derry et al. in Nature Precedings Understanding the complex interactions that underlie human disease is key to developing better targets for new drug discoveries and more personalized healthcare for patients. With the… Read more »
For many scientists and medics, especially those in lower income countries, access to the latest research can be limited and restricted behind subscription barriers. In this age of technology should anyone have to pay to access research published online? Open access publishing provides free, immediate and permanent online access to the full text of an… Read more »
BioMed Central, the open access publisher, believes that the facilitation of scientific and medical information flow plays an important role in future international social and scientific development. Removing restrictive journal subscription fees challenges inequalities regarding the access to and use of high-quality scientific resources and increases the visibility and impact of research published from low-income… Read more »