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Monthly Archives: January 2010

On the reading habits of the digital generation…

Written on January 10, 2010 at 5:51 pm, by

Read a nice summary by Martin Fenner on digital reading habits across formats. It will kindle your imagination…

Welcome to Jane…

Written on January 9, 2010 at 5:52 pm, by

Jane stands for Journal/Author Name Estimator. None the wiser…?! Have you recently written a paper, but you are not sure which journal to submit it to? Or maybe you want to find related articles so that you can identify a suitable referee. Then just cut and paste the abstract of the paper into Jane and it (she?) Read more...

Text mining with GeneIndexer

Written on January 2, 2010 at 5:52 pm, by

GeneIndexer has been around now for a couple of years but seems too be getting some marketing dollars spent on it with a full page advertisement in the latest issue of Nature and a sale to the NIH Library. The tool enables researchers to reveal biological significance in a set of co-regulated or associated genes. Read more...

eTBLAST 3.0: a similarity-based search engine

Written on January 2, 2010 at 5:00 pm, by

I have only just come across eTBlast. Conceptually, it is a bit like NCBI’s Blast utility wich assesses sequence similarites between geens or proteins. Here, you simply in put a paragraph of text and eTBLAST will return the abstracts of articles which use the same spectrum of terms. It works a little like PubMed’sRelated Article feature, except Read more...

Open access to federally funded research – a public debate

Written on January 2, 2010 at 2:53 pm, by

Currently, the National Institutes of Health is the only federal body that requires that research funded by its grants be made available to the public online at no charge within 12 months of publication. The US Administration is seeking views as to whether this policy should be extended to other science agencies and, if so, Read more...