The Croquet Consortium – An Open Source Software Foundation. ‘Croquet is a powerful new open source software development environment for creating and deploying deeply collaborative multi-user online applications on multiple operating systems and devices. Derived from Squeak, it features a peer-based network architecture that supports communication, collaboration, resource sharing, and synchronous computation between multiple users […]
January 28, 2007 2 Comments
Finding Chemical Information on the Internet by Rich Apodaca: A Must Read
How to Find Chemical Information on the Internet: Why Open Source, Open Access, and Open Data Matter. ‘The Web may be the most effective information-delivery platform ever created. Unfortunately, a variety of barriers, both technical and cultural, restrict the use of the Web for chemistry. In the last few years, three powerful forces for change […]
January 26, 2007 Leave a Comment
European Comission Supports Open Access
Brussels drafts guide for closed world of science journals. ‘The European Commission is preparing new guidelines for the €3 billion a year European scientific publishing industry that could put pressure on major firms such as Elsevier or Oxford University Press to give free access to articles based on EU-funded work. The EU should consider establishing […]
December 12, 2006 Leave a Comment
BioMed Central Research Awards 2006
BioMed Central Research Awards 2006. ‘The BioMed Central Research Awards recognize excellence in research that has been made universally accessible by open access publication in one of BioMed Central’s journals.Nominations for the BioMed Central Research Awards close on the 6 January 2007, so there is still time to submit your nomination. All research articles published […]
November 24, 2006 Leave a Comment
The Citizendium Project: A Citizens’ Compendium of Everything
The Citizendium Project. ‘The Citizendium (sit-ih-ZEN-dee-um), a “citizens’ compendium of everything,” will be an experimental new wiki project that combines public participation with gentle expert guidance. It will begin life as a “progressive fork” of Wikipedia. But we expect it to take on a life of its own and, perhaps, to become the flagship of […]