Jan 20, 2008
Posted in Chemspy at 7:06 pm by David Bradley -- Click to comment
The web domain http://research.google.com is set to become a repository for terabytes of open-source scientific data. It’s like a billion-fold expansion of the virtual GDrive available to GMail users with a neat little hack. According to sources, “The storage will be free to scientists and access to the data will be free for all.”
Apparently, Palimpsest (project codename) was actually previewed at the Googleplex Science Foo camp in August 2007 but, according to Wired magazine, has …
Jan 16, 2008
Posted in Chemspy at 10:07 am by David Bradley -- Click to comment
The US’s National Institutes of Health (NIH) has a Public Access Policy that is set to become mandatory following President Bush’s approval on Dec 26th 2007. This change will mean that NIH-funded researchers will be obliged to submit an electronic version of any of their final, peer-reviewed manuscripts to PubMed Central, as soon as the paper has been accepted for publication in a journal.
Many researchers are pleased with the move and Peter Suber outlines the …
Nov 28, 2007
Posted in Chemspy at 3:10 pm by David Bradley -- 2 Comments; add yours
Imperial College’s Bob MacCallum runs an interesting site called Compare Stuff, which I’ve reviewed on various occasions elsewhere. Recently, he started blogging about some of the interesting results that emerge when you compare search engine hit rates for different terms against each other. One of the most interesting comparisons was run using the terms “open access” versus “journal”.
The results produce an intriguing chart in which there appear to be far more mentions of bioinformatics …
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