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Kogeo seismic toolkit

Posted on January 3, 2005 by Dan Gezelter

A new entry today for Kogeo Seismic toolkit in our Geology and Geophysics section. The world’s interest in geophysical events has has clearly jumped in recent days, and it is great to see a toolkit like this becoming available. Also, … Continue reading →

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kogeo seismic toolkit

Posted on December 27, 2004 by Dan Gezelter

The kogeo seismic toolkit is an open source application for 2d and 3d seismic data analysis under Windows. kogeo offers a variety of data analysis tools, such as ‘regular’ and multi-trace attributes or neural network and attribute cross-plot classifiers. Data … Continue reading →

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Jmol grows up

Posted on December 22, 2004 by Dan Gezelter

The first of the OpenScience Projects was Jmol, and this molecular dynamics viewer has now reached an important milestone. After a complete rewrite of the code and rendering engine, the Jmol development team has released version 10.. Some new features … Continue reading →

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Science Magazine’s article on the NIH Public Access Policy

Posted on December 16, 2004 by Dan Gezelter

Elias Zerhouni covers the NIH Public Access Policy in this article in Science magazine Find Science Magazine’s article on the NIH Public Access Policy at: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/306/5703/1895

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More on OpenAccess and Nanotechnology

Posted on December 15, 2004 by Dan Gezelter

There’s a new article over at Slate magazine. Amanda Schaffer covers the Open Access debate in her Medical Examiner column. We also have a new link in the Nanotechnology section. QCADesigner is a cool new tool for designing devices based … Continue reading →

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Open Access: Should scientific articles be available online and free to the public?

Posted on December 15, 2004 by Dan Gezelter

Amanda Schaffer’ Medical Examiner column in Slate magazine on the topic of the public library of science. Highly recommended. Find Open Access: Should scientific articles be available online and free to the public? at: http://slate.com/id/2111023/

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SPARC

Posted on November 27, 2004 by Dan Gezelter

SPARC, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, is an alliance of universities, research libraries, and organizations. The coalition was an initiative of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) started in 1997 to be a constructive response to market dysfunctions … Continue reading →

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Budapest Open Access Initiative

Posted on November 27, 2004 by Dan Gezelter

An old tradition and a new technology have converged to make possible an unprecedented public good. The old tradition is the willingness of scientists and scholars to publish the fruits of their research in scholarly journals without payment, for the … Continue reading →

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Open Archives Initiative

Posted on November 27, 2004 by Dan Gezelter

The Open Archives Initiative develops and promotes interoperability standards that aim to facilitate the efficient dissemination of content. The Open Archives Initiative has its roots in an effort to enhance access to e-print archives as a means of increasing the … Continue reading →

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NIH Public Access

Posted on November 27, 2004 by Dan Gezelter

An attempt by NIH to: 1) Create a stable archive of peer-reviewed research publications to ensure the permanent preservation of these vital research findings, 2) secure for NIH a searchable compendium of peer-reviewed research publications that the agency can use … Continue reading →

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