Category: PLoS
It's barely been a day since PLoS ONE published the article Discovery of the Largest Orbweaving Spider Species: The Evolution of Gigantism in Nephila when a video appeared on YouTube mashing up images and text from the press release: Of...
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Category: Open Science
Open Access Week is in full swing and there is a lot of blogging about its various events in many countries. OA week was marked in Serbia this year as well. As you may remember, I went to Belgrade twice...
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Category: Open Science
This week - 19th-23rd October 2009 - is the Open Access week around the world - fitting nicely with the 5th birthday of PLoS Medicine. And when I say 'around the world' I really mean it. Just check out...
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Category: Open Science
Open Access 101, from SPARC from Karen Rustad on Vimeo....
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Category: Open Science
Press release (in Swedish - translation from the Swedish by Ingegerd Rabow): The Swedish Research Council requires free access to research results. In order to receive research grants the Research council requires now that researchers publish their material freely accessible...
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Category: Blogging
....to be found on the everyONE blog....
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Category: Open Science
If you are a regular reader of this blog, you are certainly aware that PLoS has started making article-level metrics available for all articles. Today, we added one of the most important sets of such metrics - the number of...
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Category: Open Science
....is now posted on everyONE blog....
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Category: Medicine
On Speaking of Medicine: PLoS Medicine turns 5 years old on October 19th, 2009. To highlight the crucial importance of open access in medical publishing we're holding a competition to find the best medical paper published under an open-access license...
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Category: Open Science
Dinosaur fossils have been dug out for a couple of centuries now. They have been cleaned up and mounted in museums and described in papers and monographs. The way this is all done has evolved over time - the early...
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