The launch last month of PubMed Commons, which makes it possible to post comments on PubMed for any indexed article, could mark a significant change in scientific communication. BioMed Central, like many other publishers, has long encouraged readers to comment on published journal articles, but has found that uptake of this functionality has been limited…. Read more »
Open Repository (along with colleagues from BioMed Central and Papers ) will be exhibiting at the upcoming ALA Midwinter meeting (booth #668), which takes in Philadelphia from January 24-28 2014. Open Repository will also be holding a workshop at this conference entitled ‘Repositories: Big Impact – Small Budget’ on 26th Jan from 10:30 to 12:00…. Read more »
This is a guest blog posted on behalf of Jeff Leek, an assistant professor in the Biostatistics Department of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. His work focuses on statistical methods for high-dimensional data and genomics. For more info check out his Bio or find him on Twitter @simplystats. This is a… Read more »
Open Repository has acquired a new US client, an institutional consortium consisting of The Five Colleges of Ohio: Oberlin College, Denison University College of Wooster, Kenyon College, and Ohio Wesleyan University. The initial repository launch will contain communities and collections from Denison and Oberlin. Previously, the repositories forming the 5 Colleges repository were part of… Read more »
It’s always pleasant to find examples of when open access allows researchers to more readily find articles. Sometimes they don’t like what they find. This week, we were surprised to come across a publication mentioning BioMed Central’s role in recent changes to the way in which new species are recognised. Much has been written about… Read more »
Elizabeth Moylan, Biology Editor at BioMed Central, joined the panel of a lively session on peer review at SpotOn London last Friday (#solo13peer). The debate was coordinated by Duncan Fraser, our Head of Platform Management & User Experience, and you can find his Storify round-up of the discussion below. [View the story “Open, Portable, Decoupled?” on… Read more »
The UK’s National Health Service (NHS)—the fifth biggest organization in the world after the US Army, Chinese Army, Wal-Mart, and McDonalds—has more than 1.5 million patient interactions per day. It’s ripe for taking advantage of new big data technologies. Yesterday at the London O’Reilly Strata Conference: Making Data Work, I listened to two inspiring talks… Read more »
In August, the Open Repository team commenced upgrading clients to the latest DSpace version 3.2. All clients hosted on our internal infrastructure will be upgraded in batches over the reminder of 2013. The upgrade brings improvements in search, indexing and general repository performance. This process also affords clients the opportunity to audit their existing repository… Read more »
Peer review is a key process in the publication of scientific research, and often finds itself under scrutiny and the topic of debate. Discussions around the future of peer review and problems with current models have led to experiments with open peer review, post publication peer review and double-blind peer review. At BioMed Central we offer… Read more »
The Institute for Christian Studies (ICS) in Toronto, Canada, launched its repository on October 21, 2013, during Open Access week. The ICS, an independent graduate school for interdisciplinary philosophy, decided that Open Repository was the ideal service to fulfil their Institute’s open access requirements. Through the repository, ICS is able to collect, archive and preserve their… Read more »