BioMed Central, in partnership with Computer Aid International, will be hosting the third Open Access Africa conference at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, from 4-5 November 2012. The conference will allow researchers, librarians, journal editors, funders and other decision-makers to share ideas on how open access publishing can support science and medicine in… Read more »
“Findings published in the peer reviewed journal BioData Mining…” A sentence like this instantly adds credibility to a scientific article. But it isn’t simply the name of a prestigious journal that assures readers of an article’s validity; it’s the knowledge that the research has been peer reviewed. Peer review, the process by which scientists critically… Read more »
Legal restrictions and uncertainties surrounding scientific data are a barrier to efficient data sharing and reuse, and ultimately the pace of research. Copyright in particular is problematic for data. It is often unclear if data are protected by copyright and the law differs greatly internationally. To try and more universally clarify the legal status of… Read more »
In 2009, Open Repository, a repository service from the open access publisher BioMed Central, partnered with the Health Services Executive (HSE) of Ireland, to provide the HSE’s repository service, LENUS. LENUS is an open access Irish Health Repository, which stores theses and journal articles published by Health Services Executive, the former regional Health Boards, and… Read more »
When, in the early 1770s, Joseph Priestley conducted his bell jar experiments with mice and mint plants, could he have imagined that these experiments would be repeated over 200 years later with a human subject? Well, they have been! ‘A paradigm of fragile Earth in Priestley’s bell jar‘ is among the first articles to be… Read more »
In the past, a significant worry for parents was the childhood diseases that would affect or even kill their children. However, investment in microbial, immunological and pharmaceutical research has enabled cures and preventions for many of these diseases. Nowadays, the worry for parents is less for the diseases that could affect their children, but more… Read more »