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...
View ArticleElsevier 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....
View ArticleOpen 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...
View ArticleSpringerOpen’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...
View ArticleUNESCO’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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleInterview 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...
View ArticleInto 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...
View ArticleGrading 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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleCanadian 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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