Open access comes of age : Nature News
“A study of open-access publishing — published last week in the open-access journal PLoS ONE — has found that the number of papers in freely accessible jo...
Category: Strategy
Three Biomedical Funders to Launch Open Access Journal – ScienceInsider
“Three heavyweight, nongovernmental funders of science announced today that they are launching a free online biology journal aimed at publishing the very ...
Eurekometrics: Analyzing the Nature of Discovery: PLoS Computational Biology
“Despite the great strides in automated discovery and digitization of data that is currently occurring, however, there are limits to eurekometrics. The mo...
PLoS Computational Biology: Ten Simple Rules for Building and Maintaining a Scientific Reputation
Common sense for scientists. Read this article…
Breast Cancer Drug Gets a Unanimous Thumbs Down – ScienceInsider
“Some members of the advisory committee pointed to a downside in today’s decision to strip the drug of its breast cancer label: This could undermine...
When big data meets journalism — Tech News and Analysis
“The Knight Foundation noted in a blog post announcing the 16 winners that data and the use of it for journalism was a big theme among this year’s contest...
Save $29,000 this year – The Scientist
“The Scientist contacted researchers around the world, looking for their tips and tricks for saving money in the lab; here we present 15 of our favorites....
Culturomics: Word play : Nature News
“The point is this: like people, ideas need a social life. Introduce them to your friends. Help them develop good contacts. It’s worth it: more than...
Mendeley API in R – Carl Boettiger
“R is a widely used statistical software environment, and this should facilitate real-time statistical analysis of the rich amount of publication data ava...
Welcome to BrewGene | BrewGene
Is this a Pandora/Last.fm/Netflix/(put in the name of your fave recommendation, collaborative filtering tool) for brews? [Wondering all the possible biz models ...