Heather

"We are increasingly keeping scientific records in electronic form; it would be straightforward to wrap our notebook pages describing an orphan result with a bit of searchable text, generate a web page, and submit the whole thing to a database. The act of conducting research would thus become practically synonymous with the act of disseminating the resulting knowledge. Along the way, we would have to spend some energy improving the records that we keep in order to ensure that our notebooks were more accessible to outside readers and less like the quirky private diaries they often become." Heh. - Heather

.. and if this could result in a proper citable reference on the other end, that'd sweeten the deal :) See e.g. Jean-Claude Bradleys comment near the top of this thread, about 'dumping' data to Nature Preceding to get a reference + DOI in return: http://friendfeed.com/the-lif... - 'Mummi' Thorisson

First glance ... not bad, OK UI but interesting feature set - Deepak Singh

We are giving it a try here and had time to evaluate it. Not bad given similar tools cost an arm and a leg. However they could improve their user interface a little bit more to look more web 2.0. They seem to focus on easy deployment setup on Windows platform while in reason sense, you need a *nix deployment setup - george

I'm sure that's a marketing decision, but I'd have been happy to have a *nix setup, true. It would have been another good reason to keep the dual-boot of which only I ever make any use. Sigh. - Heather

Thanks, Mike, Can't say I like it much myself, given I still have to prepare for it. :-) - Heather

hehe, well the writeup is a helpful summary of the differences, the educational systems can definitely sound rather complicated :) - Mike Chelen

congrats :-) - Claudia Koltzenburg

thanks, Claudia. Big relief. She gave her talk again today in our seminar series, much more relaxed, it was pretty good indeed! - Heather

withholding potentially relevant scientific discoveries for any period causes harm to the public good. even if it is unavoidable due to real world constraints, the reduction of the embargo is the primary goal - Mike Chelen

It's nice to see other journals following the system Biology Direct has. - Alejandro Montenegro

Transparency has to be good... - Peter Murray

"The majority of papers published" - why not all? - AJCann