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Category: scientific literature
Late last week, I received emails from two journals (The Journal of Biological Chemistry (JBC) and PLoS ONE) indicating that they are now incorporating interactive 3D images of molecular structures in their papers. The atomic coordinates of all published biomolecular...
Posted on: October 19, 2009 11:52 PM, by Nick Anthis • 4 Comments •
Category: scientific literature
Various studies indicate that the number of times a paper is downloaded soon after publication correlates with the number of times it is cited later on.
Posted on: April 11, 2009 1:45 PM, by Nick Anthis • 4 Comments •
Category: Life of Nick
A tiny modification can make a big difference in proteins involved in cell adhesion and migration.
Posted on: December 31, 2007 3:30 PM, by Nick Anthis • 0 Comments •
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 •
Category: open access
Bad: PubMed Central isn't looking too hot. Good: UK research councils are starting to make public access manditory.
Posted on: July 11, 2006 7:45 AM, by Nick Anthis • 0 Comments •
Category: stem cells
On the 29th of June, the Senate finally announced an upcoming vote on HR 810, a bill which would overturn President Bush's current prohibitions on federal funding of embryonic stem cell research. The progress of the bill still faces many hurdles, and a recent article in the journal Science did little to publicize them and in fact contained several problematic and even inaccurate statements.
Posted on: July 8, 2006 8:00 PM, by Nick Anthis • 1 Comments •
Category: open access
Today's issue of Nature includes a particularly damning news story about the financial troubles facing the Public Library of Science, a publisher of several prestigious open access journals. In the article, Nature describes PLoS's difficulties and heavily stresses its continued...
Posted on: June 22, 2006 7:55 AM, by Nick Anthis • 2 Comments •
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 •
Category: scientific literature
In February, Nature magazine reported that some researchers were pushing to use the Google PageRank technology to rate scientific journals instead of using the traditional impact factor system. Since the 2005 journal impact factors were recently released, I thought now would be a good time to explore this issue again.
Posted on: June 17, 2006 2:50 PM, by Nick Anthis • 1 Comments •
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 •
Category: open access
In May, Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Joseph Lieberman (D-CT) introduced the Federal Research Public Access Act of 2006 to the US Senate, which would require free public access to most government-funded research within six months of the research's publication. This post (from the archives) explores this piece of legislation and the issue of open access in depth.
Posted on: June 12, 2006 7:55 AM, by Nick Anthis • 4 Comments •
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
