Encouraging data developments on the BMC series
The BMC series biology journals have joined BMC Research Notes in encouraging all authors of original research-based articles to publish supporting data permanently online and include an ‘Availability...
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No result is worthless: the value of negative results in science
Jian Tang and Renata Curty are carrying out a study which examines the academic influence of Journal of Negative Results in BioMedicine. They are doctoral students in the Information Science and...
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Rebel worms and mixed-up ciliates: DNA methylation as you have never seen it...
Is biology at its boldest in life's nooks and crannies? Granted, Earth's most exotic organisms might not be quite so flamboyant as to have replaced phosphate with arsenate, as was momentarily...
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Current Controlled Trials appoints new advisory board
A new Current Controlled Trials (CCT) advisory board has been appointed as of October 2012, whom we are looking forward to working with on guiding the future development of our trial registration and...
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Nobel prize-winning lab releases mutant mouse data to the public domain
N-ethyl-N-nitrosourea (ENU) is a highly mutagenic chemical used in the laboratory for inducing changes in DNA and allowing study of the impact of that change. A team of researchers from the Department...
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Confronting the scale and complexity of big data: a new thematic series
Guest blog post by Prof Jason Moore, co-Editor-in-Chief of BioData Mining, a journal which publishes research on data mining applied to high-dimensional biological and biomedical data. Jason is...
View ArticleHow far have we got with public disclosure of trial data?
BioMed Central in collaboration with an Ottawa-based researcher has received the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) research grant for a timely project which aims to facilitate wider sharing of...
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Highlighting the best open access research: BioMed Central’s 7th Annual...
It’s that time of year again! Nominations are open for you to put forward your favorite BioMed Central open access research article for our seventh annual Research Awards. Articles must be published in...
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DOIs and ISRCTN records – Improving permanency of clinical research
Current Controlled Trials (CCT) has introduced digital object identifiers (DOIs) to all ISRCTN records. DOIs issued by the organisation CrossRef are unique alphanumeric ID assigned to a digital object,...
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Current Controlled Trials and DOIs – another important step towards Threaded...
The introduction of digital object identifiers (DOIs) to all ISRCTN records in the Current Controlled Trials database, announced today, is an essential part of achieving the aims of the Threaded...
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Open Data Award 2012: get your votes in now!
There’s just under two weeks left to put your nominations in for BioMed Central’s 7th Annual Research Awards, including the Open Data Award. This award recognizes researchers who have published in...
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BioMed Central support for data publishing: enhanced handling of additional...
At BioMed Central, we encourage authors to submit additional files such as movies and datasets, and we continue to look for ways to use web technology to make these files more useful and accessible. We...
View ArticleVersion control for scientific research
Guest blog post from Dr Karthik Ram (KR) and Dr C. Titus Brown (CTB) who have been working with BioMed Central on our recently announced collaboration with the social coding repository, GitHub. We live...
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Social coding and scholarly communication – open for collaboration
Innovation in how social online tools and their features develop is frequently defined and driven by the network’s users. A collaboration between BioMed Central, some of our authors and editors, and...
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OA in the UK
From 1 April 2013, all academics funded by Research Councils UK (RCUK) need to be compliant with a new open access policy. The policy requires grantees to make their research available via open access...
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A global model of avian influenza prediction in wild birds
Keiko Herrick and colleagues at the University of Alaska Fairbanks have put forward a model of avian influenza virus (AIV) prediction in wild birds, published yesterday in Veterinary Research. This is...
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G8 science ministers’ recommendations on access to research
As preparations were underway in Northern Ireland for the 39th G8 summit, science ministers from the G8 nations met with their national science academies to discuss the most pressing issues in research...
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A Call to Action from AllTrials
“Industry and academics must share all trial results: without this information, doctors are misled, and patients are harmed.” That’s Ben Goldacre summing up the motivation behind the campaign...
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Big data in medicine and health
Data are flooding in at rates never seen before, doubling every 18 months, as a result of greater access to customer data from public, proprietary and purchased sources, as well as new information...
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Opening up the data – an update to BioMed Central’s Copyright and License...
The Creative Commons CC0 waiver will become part of the BioMed Central Copyright and License Agreement on Tuesday 3rd September. For articles submitted from this date, CC0 will apply to data in all...
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