ResearchBlogging.Org 2.0
Category: blogosphere
ResearchBlogging.org has been given a face-lift. Check it out.
Posted on: September 2, 2008 7:39 AM, by Nick Anthis • 0 Comments •
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The New Research Blogging.org: BPR3 2.0
Category: blogosphere
Research Blogging.org (formerly BPR3) now automatically aggregates blog posts about peer-reviewed literature on its home page.
Posted on: January 24, 2008 6:04 PM, by Nick Anthis • 0 Comments •
Do You Blog About Peer-Reviewed Research?
Category: peer review
If so, you'll be interested in today's announcement from BPR3 (Bloggers for Peer-Reviewed Research Reporting): We're pleased to announce that BPR3's Blogging on Peer Reviewed Research icons are now ready to go! Anyone can use these icons to show when...
Posted on: October 29, 2007 9:45 AM, by Nick Anthis • 4 Comments •
General Thoughts on the NIH
Category: funding of science
Regarding grant success rates, budget constraints, the Roadmap, biodefense, young investigators, and open access
Posted on: July 20, 2007 7:29 AM, by Nick Anthis • 4 Comments •
Ah, So That's How They Did It!
Category: academia
The first edition of the Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) will be released at 11:00 pm EST tonight.
Posted on: November 30, 2006 5:22 AM, by Nick Anthis • 2 Comments •
Cell Jumps on the Interactive Bandwagon
Category: scientific literature
Nature started it with its recently begun open peer review trial, and PLoS got on board with its own announcement of a new interactive journal, PLoS ONE. Now, The Daily Transcript reports that Cell has also joined the latest trend...
Posted on: June 21, 2006 6:30 PM, by Nick Anthis • 2 Comments •
PLoS Takes On Science and Nature... and Blogs All About It!
Category: open access
Through its recently announced interdisciplinary journal PLoS ONE, the Public Library of Science appears poised to compete directly with the two leading scientific journals, Science and Nature. Now comes news that PLoS has started a series of blogs to promote this endeavor.
Posted on: June 14, 2006 7:20 PM, by Nick Anthis • 2 Comments •
Nature Lets It All Hang Out Through Open Peer Review
Category: peer review
One of the fundamental principles of modern science, as well as other academic pursuits, is peer review. However, it's not a perfect system, and today's issue of Nature announced its own experiment in science--or democracy--by opening up the peer review process to all interested in participating and giving authors of submitting their papers to an open and public peer review process to take place online.
Posted on: June 8, 2006 10:51 PM, by Nick Anthis • 4 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
