Guest blog by Pablo de Castro, GrandIR, speaker at Open Access Africa 2011 The first Open Access Africa conference, which was held in November 2010 at Jomo Kenyatta University in Nairobi, was originally planned to be a one-time event. However, the enthusiasm and insistent calls by conference attendees to hold further Open Access Africa conference… Read more »
Guest article by Dr. Tobias Innocent Ndubuisi Ezejiofor, Federal University of Technology, Owerri, Nigeria. The benefits of open access are unlimited. As a medical and environmental scientist involved in biological and environmental monitoring and always needing to analyze human and environmental specimens, three major factors are critical to me: background information on the theme of… Read more »
Thomson Reuters has recently accepted five more journals for Impact Factor tracking. BMC Pregnancy & Childbirth, BMC Surgery, Head and Neck Oncology, Journal of Foot and Ankle Research and Journal of the International AIDS Society are all due to receive their first Impact Factor in June 2012. Full details on indexing of all BioMed Central… Read more »
Open Access Africa 2011, a BioMed Central and Computer Aid International event, was hosted at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana, during Open Access Week 2011. All presentations, delivered by representatives from Google, British Medical Journal (BMJ), Department for International Development (DFID), Pan African Medical Journal and the United Nations Economic… Read more »
Open Repository is pleased to announce its first institutional US customer, the University of Arizona. As a premier public research university, the University of Arizona’s Campus Repository, managed by the University Libraries, supports the dissemination of campus intellectual output by collecting, archiving and preserving scholarly materials produced by campus faculty and researchers, as well as… Read more »
One of the essays in the fascinating – and open access – text on data-intensive science, The Fourth Paradigm, envisages an age of instantaneous knowledge translation, where scientific discovery can be instantly applied to clinical practice. This concept was named the ‘healthcare singularity’ and its achievement will involve real-time generation, integration and processing of human… Read more »
Last week, I returned from Ghana, where BioMed Central and ComputerAid were running the 2nd annual Open Access Africa conference. The conference was hosted by Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) and ran like clockwork due to the outstanding efforts of the University Librarian, Helena Asamoah-Hassan, and her team. Mrs Asamoah-Hassan is a… Read more »
Large clinical trial databases represent a wealth of clinical and scientific information which could potentially hold the key to new discoveries, breakthroughs and advancements in knowledge gaps of a particular disease or its treatment and management. In a recent study published in Trials, the value of data mining the Donepezil Data Repository in furthering the… Read more »
The Virginia Henderson International Nursing Library (VHL) is the latest Open Repository customer to have launched their repository at the Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI) Biennial Convention in Texas last Saturday, 29th October. STTI offers nurses, in all roles around the globe, online access to reliable nursing information that can be easily utilized and shared…. Read more »