In the first of two disapointing scholarly-communication announcements last week, Jisc announced its report on progress towards open access in the UK. The key finding is: But that’s not the part that disappoints me. Here’s the part that disappoints me: Sometimes I think people don’t know what “transitional” means.

Para procesar los metadatos bibliográficos mediante análisis métricos es necesario entender con detalle la estructura de la información asociada a los artículos científicos en las bases de datos, para esto resulta muy útil comprender los metadatos bibliográficos, los sistemas de organización de conocimiento utilizados para describir y clasificar los contenidos de los artículos, así como entender las especificaciones y los formatos que se

This is a rather niche post, but the method can likely be adapted for other use cases. In the lab we have many different cell lines stored in liquid nitrogen. The arrangement is: the vials are in specific positions in a box (10 x 10) there are 13 boxes to a cane we have 5 canes Ideally, to retrieve the correct vial from the cell store requires a map.

There may be hundreds of papers out there reporting on experimental results in cell lines that do not actually exist.

Die Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK) positioniert sich bekanntlich sehr stark in Richtung Open Access und Open Research.

Una extendida –y algo exagerada– anécdota cuenta que, durante la primera carrera espacial, los científicos de la NASA descubrieron que los bolígrafos que los astronautas usarían en las misiones de exploración lunar no funcionaban en condiciones de gravedad cero.

The Rogue Scholar science blog archive is launching a new pricing plan this week: Project . Blogs that participate in the Project plan get all the benefits of the existing Team plan – unlimited blog posts with DOI registration, full-text search, and long-term archiving with the Internet Archive – for a one-time fee of $150.

Im Urheberrecht gibt es einige Erlaubnisse, die Lehrerinnen wie Schülern gleichermaßen für den Unterricht zu Gute kommen. Wir erklären gesetzliche Regeln, u.a. um Filme und Videos zu zeigen, Musik und Gedichte aufzuführen sowie Remixes und Mashups zu kreieren. Außerdem erläutern wir, was das Urheberrecht zu Homeschooling und Online-Speicherdiensten sagt.

My friend Toby Lowther wrote to me back in December to ask this question: It’s strange, isn’t it? The last I knew, Shonisaurus was the largest ichthyosaur, at about 20 m and 50 tonnes, and this is considerably bigger than any plesiosaur or mosasaur I know of. It’s up the sperm-whale size category, but not even close to the bigger baleen whales. Why not?

Stärkung von Open Research im Berliner Raum – hilfreiche Materialien unterstützen Forschende in allen Phasen ihrer Arbeit