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New from BioMed Central: Journal of Biomedical Semantics

Tweet Do you dream of ontologies, taxonomies, terminologies, controlled vocabularies, annotated data, knowledge and service repositories, literature, or reasoning systems and their use in data and...

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Elsevier tests new peer-review….we want open peer review

Tweet I noticed in a tweet of a Research Information posting about Elsevier’s new peer-review experiment for Chemical Physics Letters called PeerChoice. On the scale of news,  PeerChoice is a murmur....

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Open data discussion time

Tweet BioMed Central has drafted a position statement on data sharing, open data and licensing, and they have invited the wider scientific community to join the discussion to craft an explicit open...

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SpringerOpen’s launch… and a handy list of OA funding agencies

Tweet Not so long ago, in October 2008,  Springer Science+Business Media acquired the  BioMed Central Group (BMC) and its 180 open access journals (now up to 208).  BMC continues to operate as a...

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UNESCO’s open access strategy presented at Open Access Africa

Tweet Last November, the publisher BioMed Central (BMC) sponsored Open Access Africa at Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya. BMC happens to be a wholly-owned subsidiary of  Springer Science+Business...

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A modest proposal: Rating biomedical open access editorial teams

Tweet In my last blog post I promised to conjure up a way to compare the quality of the collective editors of a biomedical open access  journal. Here is my recipe, a modest proposal for rating the...

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Interview with Dr. Raoul Kamadjeu, in anticipation of Open Access Africa 2011

Tweet Raoul Kamadjeu is a physician, co-founder of the Pan African Medical Journal. He is driven in all his projects by a simple motto: “Start small, but think big..!” He received his doctorate in...

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Into the Lion’s Den… Chemistry Central visits ACS later this month

Tweet Recent visitors to the BioMed Central (BMC) web site might notice the prominence that Chemistry Central has in the three-sisters navigational tabs: I have not had a chance to acquaint myself...

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Grading the top clinical genetics journals for open access

Tweet Here are the top 10 clinical genetics journals for 2011,  according to SCImago Journal Rank for today, limited to journals with at least 100 articles over the last three years: Nature Genetics...

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How to shed the predatory label? Open peer review!

Tweet There are more than 50 questionable open access publishers on Jeffrey Beall’s List of Predatory Open-Access Publishers.   Some questionable journals publish independently of any publisher.  How...

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Canadian Center of Science and Education SLAPPs Jeffrey Beall, but they also...

Tweet The Canadian Center of Science and Education (CCSE),  established in 2006,  has implemented a version of the Open Journals System and  hosts a number of open access journals. An article in the...

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