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HORROR STORY WAITING TO HAPPEN. Zero consent! Where the hell was the IRB?

We're a membership organisation, providing digital solutions for UK education and research.

Interesting look at how an embedded librarian sells herself to faculty.

figshare, a community-driven open data project, today announced a new partnership with the Public Library of Science (PLOS) to aid the visualisation of different types of data across the PLOS journals and make the data more widely accessible. figshare will host the supplemental data for all seven PLOS journals, as well as provide a widget […]

In my last post  I discussed why I thought the decision of The Plant List  to use a restrictive license (CC-BY-NC-ND) was such a poor choice...

Stepping Stones  b y  mark 75      During the PREPARDE  project workshop  at the International Digital Curation Conference , one of the p...

"By “long” data, I mean datasets that have massive historical sweep — taking you from the dawn of civilization to the present day."

Data fraud hits close to home...

This is a guest post by Chris Adams, in the Repository Development Center, technical lead for the World Digital Library at the the Library of Congress. Like many people who work with digital imagery, I’ve been looking forward to the JPEG-2000 image format for a long time due to solid technical advantages: superior compression performance […]

PLOS Blogs Network PLOS is a nonprofit, Open Access publisher empowering researchers to accelerate progress in science and medicine by leading a…

Migrate your papers and files to a discoverable, accessible digital archive.

Following New York City's lead, Madison passes an open data ordinance and launches an open data platform to spur civic engagement and economic development.

Herbarium data from the Smithsonian, and plans for making it LOD.

Newsnight's Susan Watts finds out how the analysis of huge datasets, known as Big Data, combined with a UK government plan for mass DNA sequencing of people with cancer and rare diseases, may have the power to transform treatments.

The first gives us some alarming statistics. In a survey of nearly 1000 web services published in the Nucleic Acids Web Server Issue between 2003 and 2009: Only 72% were still available at the published address. The authors could not test the functionality for 33% because there was no example data, and 13% no longer worked as expected. The authors could only confirm positive functionality for 45%. Only 274 of the 872 corresponding authors answered an email. Of these 78% said a service was developed by a student or temporary researcher, and many had no plan for maintenance after the researcher had moved on to a permanent position.