Last month, Peter Binfield (PLoS) and others participated in a “Science Commons Symposium” hosted by Microsoft. Check out Peter’s blog post to read more about the event and to access the presentations.
Entries Tagged as 'open access'
Presentation on PLoS ONE & Article-Level Metrics
March 4th, 2010 by Kristi · No Comments
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PLoS: the Public Library of Science
February 17th, 2010 by Kristi · No Comments
I just wanted to take a few minutes to remind everybody about the Public Library of Science (PLoS). [link] PLoS is a nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world’s scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource. All [their] activities are guided by core principles. PLoS publishes 7 online peer-reviewed [...]
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PLoS ONE indexed in Web of Science
January 5th, 2010 by Kristi · No Comments
Reposted from the PLoS Blog: Today we learned that by the end of this week PLoS ONE (in keeping with all other PLoS journals) will be indexed by the Web of Science – this is an important literature discovery tool that many people use and so we are pleased to be indexed. PLoS ONE is [...]
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Public Access to Research
December 17th, 2009 by Kristi · No Comments
OK Open Science fans – now is your chance to be heard. The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy wants to hear from you on their blog about access to publicly-funded research. As you know, research funded by NIH is required to be available to the public within one year of publication. What [...]
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PLoS Pearls
June 26th, 2009 by Kristi · 3 Comments
From the PLoS blog today: The PLoS Pathogens editors and staff are thrilled to announce the debut of “Pearls,” a new series in the journal that will begin publishing monthly, starting with this June’s issue. Each Pearl will be a concise primer on a topic of importance, meant to fill the gap between research articles [...]
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Journal impact and alternative metrics
April 28th, 2009 by Kristi · 2 Comments
A blog post yesterday at ouroboros offers an interesting discussion about journal impact – and the issues that come into play when assessing such a subjective concept. The author mentions the usual concepts which swirl around these types of issues (such as impact factor) but points out that open access is not readily assessed in [...]
Tags:academia, communication, journal, open access, Web 2.0
Happy Open Access Day!
October 14th, 2008 by Kristi · No Comments
Well folks, it is finally here…Open Access Day! What??? You didn’t hear about the celebration? Open Access Day will help to broaden awareness and understanding of Open Access, including recent mandates and emerging policies, within the international higher education community and the general public. Read more in the full Press Release. –http://openaccessday.org/about/ Read more about [...]
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PLoS needs you to make some noise!
September 20th, 2008 by Kristi · No Comments
Please check out this update from the Public Library of Science. PLoS needs us to contact our representatives and raise our voices to support Open Access. PLoS Facebook page NIH Mandate under attack – we need your help by 9.24 Hello Facebook page fans, A rare individual note from us today but it is in [...]
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Postercasts on SciVee
August 28th, 2008 by Kristi · No Comments
SciVee rolled out a new way to disseminate your scientific findings in the web 2.0 world: POSTERCASTS! Read more about SciVee here, meet SciVee partners here and get a project overview here. SciVee, a Web 2.0 resource dedicated to the dissemination of scientific research and science-specific research networking, is adding an innovative new video feature [...]
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Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE!)
August 22nd, 2008 by Kristi · 2 Comments
The Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) is a welcome addition on the scientific communication stage. JoVE is “a peer reviewed, open access, online journal devoted to the publication of biological research in a video format” and offers an elegant approach to traditional publishing models. Jove offers videos from such categories as Basic Protocols, Neuroscience, Developmental [...]
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