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Is Science really “Making Data Maximally Available”?
Earlier this year Hanson, Sugdon and Alberts [1] argued in a piece entitled “Making Data Maximally Available” that journals like Science play a crucial role in making scientific data “publicly and...
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Why the Research Works Act Doesn’t Affect Text-mining Research
As the the central digital repository for life science publications, PubMed Central (PMC) is one of the most significant resources for making the Open Access movement a tangible reality for researchers...
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Why Are There So Few Efforts to Text Mine the Open Access Subset of PubMed...
The open access movement in scientific publishing has two broad aims: (i) to make scientific articles more broadly accessible and (ii) to permit unrestricted re-use of published scientific content....
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Will the Democratization of Sequencing Undermine Openness in Genomics?
It is no secret, nor is it an accident, that the success of genome biology over the last two decades owes itself in large part to the Open Science ideals and practices that underpinned the Human Genome...
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Launch of the PLOS Text Mining Collection
Just a quick post to announce that the PLOS Text Mining Collection is now live! This PLOS Collection arose out of a twitter conversation with Theo Bloom last year, and has come together through the...
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Incentivising open data & reproducible research through pre-publication...
Yesterday Ewan Birney posted a series of tweets expressing surprise that more people don’t take advantage of ENA’s programmatic access to submit and store next-generation sequencing (NGS) data to EBI,...
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