Month: August 2006

A beautiful vision from Richard Cave on PLoS Blog. Thanks to Open Access News. One Laptop per Child is closer to reality with the Children’s Machine (CM1). One of the key features is that it “creates its own mesh network out of the box. Each machine is a full-time wireless router. Children—as well as their …

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CWB open source chemistry folks will like Chemical Blogspace. Description:Chemical blogspace collates posts from chemistry blogs and then does useful and interesting things with that data. For example, you can see which papers are currently being discussed by organic chemists, or which web pages are being linked to by chemoinformaticians. It’s sort of like a …

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From Open Access News: PLoS One is Making a Splash. PLoS ONE has had more submissions (70) in its first three weeks than any other PLoS journal in the same period. PS: Congrats to PLoS and congrats to authors for seeing the value here and supporting something new. Heather’s Comment: PLoS, the Public Library of …

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BioMedCentral (BMC), the world’s largest open access publisher – today launched Chemistry Central, a new open access website currently featuring chemistry article from BMC journals, with plans to offer new open access chemistry journals, beginning with Chemistry Central Journal. For CWB members from the research community, this is a wonderful opportunity to publish open access …

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