OAI : Presentations online. The presentations from the conference, Thinking Beyond Digital Libraries - Designing the Information Strategy for the Next Decade (Bielefeld, February 3-5, 2004), are now online. Several are on OA and OAI-compliant repositories. [Open Access News]  12:20:18 PM   [Feedback ]  

Open Access : caBIG nearing completion. The Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG) is a major OA project from the U.S. National Cancer Institute. The caBIG pilot was announced last July but the grid itself is now nearly ready for public use. Quoting yesterday's press release: caBIG "is an open-source, open-access, voluntary information network that will enable cancer researchers to share tools, standards, data, applications, and technologies according to agreed upon common standards and needs. caBIG will create an informatics infrastructure that will link teams of cancer and biomedical researchers as part of a collaborative network, or grid....caBIG is a unique and ambitious undertaking, as no known precedent exists for a bioinformatics engineering initiative of this scale. The National Cancer Institute envisions that caBIG will become 'the World Wide Web of cancer research.' Researchers from around the world will have open access to the common platform of caBIG, be able to use common tools, and rapidly convert, relate, and analyze data from different sources." For more details, see the FAQs or the caBIG Interactive Overview. [Open Access News]  11:00:03 AM   [Feedback ]  

News Feeds : BioMed Central RSS Feeds.

Biomed Central, "an independent publishing house committed to providing immediate free access to peer-reviewed biomedical research", has implemented RSS Feeds for their content, including abstracts for articles that appear in all their journals. To create a feed for the journal of your choice, just add /rss/ at the end of the URL.

We were talking about this today at the RSS/Blogging 101 preconference. Wouldn't it be great to get this type of service from our fee-based vendors? Maybe they can learn a few things from Biomed Central (link via STLQ) [Library Stuff]

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