Entries from Element List tagged with 'Open Access'

DOE Funds Argonne Cloud Computing Project for Scientific Research

Over the decades scientists in quantitative research fields have often experienced a tug-of-war between the desire for large (and expensive) shared computing environments and smaller but powerful workstations that a single scientist could procure for their own lab. The...

JCB DataViewer Brings Biological Image Data to Your Desktop

The publisher of The Journal of Cell Biology has released an application for sharing biological image data associated with published research called the JCB DataViewer. The viewer not only permits sharing of original image files, but also allows viewers to...

Overheard in the Science Blogosphere

Royal Society Podcast - The Royal Society is producing its own podcasts these days covering science and medicine (interesting that they distinguish the two). The most recent podcast released January 31 covers the history of the science behind climate change...

2007: The Year of the Battle Over Open Access

Imagine having open access to all of the world's scientific literature and scientific data. Now wake up, because if science publishers and even some scientists have it their way, it ain't gonna happen. The latest article by Jim Giles in...