Last week I attended the launch of the new UK PubMed Central (UKPMC) site, which is being advertised as a new innovative web interface that will improve access to medically related literature.…
As I mentioned last week, I recently attended the ELIXIR community event held by the BBSRC, MRC, NERC and the Wellcome Trust. I have to admit I only had vague knowledge of ELIXIR, so found the event really useful.…
Why is it that the run up to Christmas everyone else seems to be winding down but me?…
In March 2009, I wrote about how research data are increasingly being recognised as valuable resources in their own right.…
I have been doing some background reading on open access and was alerted to a new initiative by PLoS, entitled PLos Currents an”experimental” site for posting preprints of papers on hot topics.…
Back in December of last year, I posted a blog about an online register developed by a group of French research students, Scientific Red Cards which highlights scientific papers that have found to be fraudulent or contain other…
One of the big pushes behind the data sharing drive has been the idea that by allowing researchers to have access to as much data, researchers will be able to combine in innovative ways leading to new and exciting developments.…
BBC radio 3 are airing a series of essays, ‘Strange Encounters’, in which scientists are asked to describe a famous eureka moment in their field as if they were actually in the room.…
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