NCBI adds searchable images database
On Wednesday the NCBI released an Images database, compiled from full text resources at the NCBI – initially PubMed Central articles....
Martin Fenner
Some thoughts on principles for scientific attribution
Today I posted a document that should help define a set of principles for scientific attribution. These principles will be...
Self-motivated vs. mandated archiving
My post last week about citation rates of mandated vs. self-selected Open Accessfulfills resulted in an interesting discussion thanks to...
Having an impact (factor) and other stories from Gregory Petsko
Biologist Gregory Petsko has written a monthly column for the journal Genome Biology since the journal launched in 2000. To mark the 10th anniversary of the column and the journal, Genome Biology created an eBook (iPad/...
Helping researchers create scholarly content
Two weeks ago I gave a presentation at the STM Annual Conference 2010 in Frankfurt (STM is the International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers). I told the audience that publishers could do a much...
Start Open Access Week with Kick-Off Video
Find out more at the Open Access Week website. And watch this blog for another Open Access story later today....