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if your university has a public dbase of research interests (say, for potential grad students looking for supervisors) pls post the link in the comments. am curious to see what's out there. merci!
"OSCAR3 (Open Source Chemistry Analysis Routines) is software for the semantic annotation of chemistry papers. The modules OPSIN (a name to structure converter) and ChemTok (a tokeniser for chemical text) are also available as standalone libraries."
- Mike Chelen
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anyone heard any backlash from journals about others "semi-publishing" work in PLoS Currents and the like? a colleague is wondering how the big gun journals would treat pre-publication dissemination of data, particulary in the field of public health where said data is absolutely critical to shaping the response to something like a pandemic.
Speaking for the PLoS titles, pre-print publication (including models such as PLoS Currents) does not preclude consideration and publication at one of our journals.
- Peter Binfield
thanks Peter - i think she's more concerned with non-PLoS titles (Lancet, NEJM). she's going to use this as a moment to fight against restrictive publishing policies (she works in public health and thinks if getting the word out saves lives, publishers should wake up).
- jambina
Well - good luck to her, she has my support! Funny how when there is a public health issue closed-access journals will often make their articles on the topic Open Access...
- Peter Binfield
Hi, everyone. Could I ask a huge favor? ScanGrants has been nominated for Willamette Innovative Business/Organization of the Year http://www.willametteinnovators.com/profile... (The Willamette Valley is in Northwest Oregon.) It would be really a boost if we won. I would be very grateful for any votes from all of you for ScanGrants....
"SL is a Linux release put together by Fermilab, CERN, and various other labs and universities around the world. Its primary purpose is to reduce duplicated effort of the labs, and to have a common install base for the various experimenters. The base SL distribution is basically Enterprise Linux, recompiled from source. Our main goal for the base distribution is to have everything compatible with Enterprise, with only a few minor additions or changes. An example of of items that were added are Pine, and OpenAFS. Our secondary goal is to allow easy customization for a site, without disturbing the Scientific Linux base. The various labs are able to add their own modifications to their own site areas. By the magic of scripts, and the anaconda installer, each site is to be able to create their own distributions with minimal effort. Or, if a users wishes, they can simply install the base SL release."
- OpenSci Info
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