"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
What do you think of LabCollector? Have you heard of it? Other lab management software to which you are partial, with easily implemented "module" templates that already have been drawn up by someone? http://labcollector.com/index...
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, Claudia. Big relief. She gave her talk again today in our seminar series, much more relaxed, it was pretty good indeed!
- Heather
http://www.truthout.org/1012096 I don't believe such efforts are going to really change an inevitable decline in the number of US/European scientists, at least.
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
Liked: The majority of papers published online in The EMBO Journal now contain in their supplementary material section a Review Process File including referee reports and author responses. We also continue to encourage citing of primary literature through allowing unlimited references. (www.embojournal.org)