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Category Archives: News
Cloud computing increasingly attractive to universities, says JISC
JISC News release 16.5.2011 Cloud computing increasingly attractive to universities, says JISC There is a “compelling case for using the cloud for research”, JISC’s innovation director for digital infrastructure argued last week. Speaking at an ‘inside government’ forum on cloud … Continue reading
Think Quarterly – a Google publication for UK biz partners
Interesting reading from a Google publication directed toward their UK clients. Check out some of the articles highlighted below this quote from the Think Quarterly home page. Like most companies, Google regularly communicates with our business customers via email newsletters, … Continue reading
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FigShare Beta
FigShare allows you to share all of your data, negative results and unpublished figures. In doing this, other researchers will not duplicate the work, but instead may publish with your previously wasted figures, or offer collaboration opportunities and feedback on … Continue reading
Will Computers Crash Genomics?
Science: Will Computers Crash Genomics? Should research focus on data analysis as much as or more than on data generation? The capacity to process and analyze data has not kept up to speed with the volume of data produced through … Continue reading
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What researchers want for research data support – A SURF Foundation Report
The full report can be found on the SURF Foundation site. via SURF Foundation publications page: A review of literature describing what researchers want with regard to storage of and access to research data This publication reviews recent literature describing … Continue reading
What Scientists Think about Open Access Publishing
Highlights from the SOAP project survey. What Scientists Think about Open Access Publishing was posted on arXiv.org Abstract from arXiv.org: The SOAP (Study of Open Access Publishing) project has run a large-scale survey of the attitudes of researchers on, and … Continue reading
What Nature Publishing Group is up to
Cameron Neylon, in this post on his Science in the Open blog, digs into some of the details about open access publishing and what Nature Publishing Group (NPG) is doing to produce a PLoS-like publication. I know, not too exciting… … Continue reading
Creating a Data Management Framework
The Australian National Data Service has released a guide titled: Creating a Data Management Framework from announcement to Research Data Management list: Creating a Data Management Framework is designed for institutions which are committed to improving their research data management … Continue reading
