IQmol is a easy to use molecular editor and visualization package with the ability to connect to remote servers to run ab initio calculations.
Find IQmol at: http://iqmol.org
Monthly Archives: November 2016
Pathomx
Pathomx is a workflow-based tool for the analysis and visualisation of experimental data. Initially created as a tool for metabolomic data analysis is has been extended and can now be used for any scientific and non-scientific data analysis. The software functions as a hybrid of workflow and script-based approaches to analysis. Using workflows it is possible to construct rapid, reproducible analysis constructs for experimental data. By combining this with custom inline scripting it is possible to perform any analysis imaginable. Workflows can be dynamically re-arranged to test different approaches and saved to track the development of your approach. Saved workflows can also be shared with other users or groups, allowing instant reproduction of results and methods. Tools can export images as publication-ready high resolution images in common formats.
Find Pathomx at: http://pathomx.org
FlexibleParser
Powerful .NET library allowing to easily deal with a wide variety of situations involving units of measurement.
Find FlexibleParser at: https://github.com/varocarbas/FlexibleParser
Source code of DESTINY, a 2D and 3D SRAM/eDRAM/NVM Cache Modeling Tool
DESTINY models both 2D and 3D caches designed with SRAM, eDRAM, PCM, STT-RAM and ReRAM, thus covering both conventional and emerging technologies. In its purpose, it is similar to CACTI. Accompanying paper available at http://goo.gl/qzyWFE Category should be: Computer Science > Architecture
Find Source code of DESTINY, a 2D and 3D SRAM/eDRAM/NVM Cache Modeling Tool at: https://code.ornl.gov/3d_cache_modeling_tool/destiny
[Support for German OA policy]
Results of a survey by Germany’s Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF, Federal Ministry of Education and Research):
From Google Translate: The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) will undertake in their own project funding scientists to open access publication. Do you think that’s right?
79.7% YES
20.3% NO
(Votes: 895)
Springer Nature provides Italian universities hit by earthquake free access to electronic content
“Springer Nature will open its digital resources to two Italian universities affected by the earthquakes of this past August and October. In addition to the journal titles to which they already subscribe, Università degli Studi di Camerino and Università degli Studi di Macerata will gain access to all Springer and Nature journals until the end of June 2017. All researchers, teaching staff and students at the two universities will benefit from the offer….”
Lawsuit against Open Access Constitution / Konstanzer Hochschullehrer pull in court / boersenblatt.net
From Google’s Engish: “17 University lecturers from the University of Konstanz have submitted to the Administrative Court of Mannheim a complaint against the Open Access Constitution of the University. As the university itself reports, scientists in the university’s practice of obliging their scientists to use the right to second publication see a breach of the fundamental right to freedom of science (Article 5 (3) Basic Law)….
The University of Konstanz was set on 10 December 2015 “Statute for the exercise of scientific republication law” in force undertook its scientists to perceive the so-called right to self-archiving: All scientific papers published in journals and At least half of which are financed from public funds, should be freely made available to the public a year after the publication of the first publication and made public and free of charge via the Konstanzer publications server KOPS….”
Tiedonhinta.fi
Finnish site. Page in English.
“Large international scientific publishers are currently enjoying remarkable profit margins. Their business is heavily indebted to the voluntary work of the researchers. The scientific community produces research, usually publicly funded, edits the publications as unpaid volunteers, and then buys back the scientific publications. Publishers have increased the price of publications significantly year by year although in this digital era the trend should be the opposite. In 2015 Finnish research organisations paid a total of 27 million euros in subscription fees and in the future the price looks to be higher still. The hikes in fees are especially problematic at a time when funding cuts are narrowing the scope of opportunity for science as it is. In currently ongoing contract negotiations Finnish scientific libraries are demanding that prices be made more reasonable and open access publishing more prevalent. We, the signatories, support these goals. We are prepared to abstain from refereeing and editorial duties for the journals of the publishers involved in these negotiations if the goals of the Finnish negotiators are not realised.”
The Colonial North American Project at Harvard University · Colonial North American Project at Harvard
“This website provides access to some of the remarkable materials digitized as part of the ongoing, multi-year Colonial North American Project at Harvard University.
When complete, the project will make available to the world digitized images of all known archival and manuscript materials in the Harvard Library that relate to 17th and 18th century North America. Scattered through twelve repositories, these documents reveal a great deal about topics such as social life, education, trade, finance, politics, revolution, war, women, Native American life, slavery, science, medicine, and religion. In addition to reflecting the origins of the United States, the digitized materials also document aspects of life and work in Great Britain, France, Canada, the Caribbean, and Mexico. The ‘Essays’ on this website are the work of a Summer 2015 Arcadia Fellow, Alicia DeMaio, who was one of the first researchers to connect thematically related material from among the images digitized to date….”
National Portal and Digital Repository
“The National Portal and Digital Repository for Indian Museums are developed and hosted by Human-Centred Design & Computing Group, C-DAC, Pune as per the agreement with Ministry of Culture, Government of India. HCDC Group has also developed JATAN: Virtual Museum software which is used for creating the digital collections in various museums and digital archival tools that are used in background for managing the national digital repository of museums….”
About this Collection – Photochrom Prints | Digital Collections | Library of Congress
“Contains almost 6,000 views of Europe and the Middle East and 500 views of North America. Published primarily from the 1890s to 1910s, these prints were created by the Photoglob Company in Zürich, Switzerland, and the Detroit Publishing Company in Michigan. The richly colored images look like photographs but are actually ink-based photolithographs, usually 6.5 x 9 inches. Like postcards, the photochroms feature subjects that appeal to travelers, including landscapes, architecture, street scenes, and daily life and culture. The prints were sold as souvenirs and often collected in albums or framed for display. The Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division assembled this collection from two sources that provided prints in mint condition. In 1985, the prints of Europe and the Middle East were purchased from the Galerie Muriset in Switzerland. In 2004, Howard L. Gottlieb generously donated the North American views. Additional photochroms can be found in the collections listed in the Related Resources section….”
Medical Heritage Library – online access to seven centuries of medical history
“The Medical Heritage Library (MHL), a digital curation collaborative among some of the world’s leading medical libraries, promotes free and open access to quality historical resources in medicine. Our goal is to provide the means by which readers and scholars across a multitude of disciplines can examine the interrelated nature of medicine and society, both to inform contemporary medicine and strengthen understanding of the world in which we live. The MHL’s growing collection of digitized medical rare books, pamphlets, journals, and films number in the tens of thousands, with representative works from each of the past six centuries, all of which are available here through the Internet Archive….”
Does Online Access Promote Research in Developing Countries? Empirical Evidence from Article-Level Data by Frank Mueller-Langer, Marc Scheufen, Patrick Waelbroeck :: SSRN
Abstract: Universities in developing countries have rarely been able to subscribe to academic journals in the past. The “Online Access to Research in the Environment” initiative (OARE) provides institutions in developing countries with free online access to more than 5,700 environmental science journals. Here we analyze the effect of OARE registration on scientific output by research institutions in five developing countries. We apply a difference-in-difference estimation method using panel data for 18,955 journal articles from 798 research institutions. We find that online access via OARE increases publication output by at least 43% while lower-ranked institutions located in remote areas benefit less. These results are robust when we apply instrumental variables to account for the information diffusion process and a Bayesian estimation method to control for self-selection into the initiative.
How to Link ORCID to Your PLOS Editorial Manager Profile
This video shows PLOS ONE authors, reviewers, and Academic Editors how to register for an ORCID iD, link ORCID to an existing Editorial Manager profile, and enable automatic updates to your ORCID profile through
DSpace-CRIS DEMO
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