BioMed Central explodes Open Access myths
...ishing, which makes all original research articles freely available to anyone, has been a major focus of the Government inquiry. Today's statement from BioMed Central responds to each of the major "anti-Open Access" arguments made during the course of the inquiry so far. "We felt it was important, at this s...New, comprehensive tumor classification combines molecular biology and classic pathology
...en Access documents that can be used or criticized freely by the biomedical community....Early treatment confirmed as key to stroke recovery
...ing an ischemic stroke, and allowing blood to flow freely again in the occluded or blocked artery. Patients must have computerized tomography (CT) scans of the brain taken before treatment begins to confirm that the stroke is caused by a clot. Seventy-five percent of patients who were treated within 60 mi...Should publicly funded research be free and available to the public?
...is to make original, peer-reviewed research papers freely available online, giving anyone with access to the...the means to make humanity's treasury of knowledge freely available to scientists, teachers, students and the public around the world. But it won't happen aut......eposited into GenBank, from which the data will be freely accessible to researchers worldwide. Recent outbreaks of avian flu have accelerated scientists' interest in learning more about the chicken genome and how genetic variation may play a role in the susceptibility of different strains to the disease. In...HUPO scientists tackle human blood plasma proteome
...nce specimens will be stored in a master database, freely accessible to all, at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) in Cambridge, England. EBI maintains and annotates the International Protein Index (IPI). Since all laboratories are analyzing the same human reference specimens, Omenn says that compa...Carnegie Mellon scientist says new technologies boost bio-terrorism surveillance
...lity Act (HIPAA). The resulting data can be shared freely and remain useful for bio-terrorism surveillance. "Dr. Latanya Sweeney and the Data Privacy Lab are an invaluable resource for state and local governments struggling to keep up with the requirements of the HIPAA as well as the Family Educational Rig...A joint effort against the Oriental boil
...n the Near East: It offers the sole possibility of freely accessible financing for the Palestinians. Although the Israeli universities are financed by the state, they rely on third party funds to a significant degree. Since the programme's inception, 25 projects have been funded. Of these, 17 have been comp...UN report: Accelerate global agreement to oversee exploitation of South Pole 'extremophiles'
...ervations and results should be exchanged and made freely available. The report concludes that although the physical impact of bioprospecting is currently addressed by the ATS regime, establishing the legal and policy basis that controls the commercialization of genetic resources, in line with the basic ...European Virtual Institute for Genome Annotation receives 12 million Euro
... annotations generated will be integrated and made freely accessible to all through a single portal on the web, and will be used as a means of guiding future experimental work. "Experimental validation of a statistically significant subset of computational predictions will be an integral part of the proces...JGI launches community sequencing program
...enerated under CSP-supported projects will be made freely available to the entire scientific community in accordance with the JGI's data release policy. Founded in 1997, JGI was initially tasked with unraveling and interpreting a large complement of the human genome chromosomes 5, 16 and 19 comprising ne...'HapMap' scientists provide detailed plans
...ulations. Once finished, the HapMap will provide a freely available catalog of common patterns, or haplotype...eople. Chakravarti, who plans to use the freely available products of the HapMap to determine the genetic underpinnings of heart disease, diabetes a...International collaborators to form the Worldwide Protein Data Bank
...gical macromolecular structure data, which is made freely and publicly available to researchers, educators, and students. Worldwide, the PDB receives over 60 million hits per year. As of October 28, 2003, it contained 22,984 structures, a number that has been growing exponentially. According to a 10-year ......reviewed journals in which all research content is freely accessible. The consortium, of Ohio's college and university libraries and the State Library of Ohio, was motivated to invest in BioMed Central membership because of current budget constraints on both their member libraries and the OhioLINK central b...Public Library of Science launches PLoS Biology
...pen access publication - all of these articles are freely available via the Internet to anyone, anywhere to read, download, print, distribute and reuse, so long as proper attribution of authorship is maintained. "Scientists want their work to be seen and used," states Dr. Harold Varmus, chairman of the PLo...Beyond genes: Scientists venture deeper into the human genome
...d and stored in databases, and will be rapidly and freely available to the entire scientific community. The ENCODE pilot effort is being implemented by a consortium because the wide range of technologies that need to be tested and developed is well beyond the scope of any single scientific team. The DNA ta...Thorough, searchable database of human proteins unveiled
...he Human Protein Resource Database was built using freely available computer code, so-called open source, from ZOPE (Z Object Publishing Environment), which experts at the Institute of Bioinformatics adjusted to fit the project's needs. One of the benefits of using an object-oriented structure like ZOPE, Pa...New research technique provides unique glimpse into Alzheimer's disease
...membrane, at the tip of the tube ensures that only freely mobile molecules are collected. The main obstacle to studying ABeta in interstitial fluid is that the molecule is much larger than those typically measured with microdialysis. ABeta molecules also tend to stick to each other and to other particles, ...Sex selection for social reasons unlikely to skew gender balance in Germany and UK
...he main concern was based on the assumption that a freely available sex selection service would distort the natural sex ratio. But, for a severe gender imbalance to occur there would have to be two conditions met a significant preference for children of a particular sex and a considerable demand for precon...Study reveals genetic activity of key step in malaria parasite's cycle
...on, because they wanted to ensure that it would be freely accessible to scientists around the world, many of whom cannot afford to subscribe to scientific journals, says DeRisi. "Malaria is a major killer in the Third World. But many scientists in malaria-endemic areas, such as South America, South East Asi...