Altmetrics. Hi! My name is Lambert, I'm from the Open Science Lab of TIB Hannover. (TIB is the German National Library for Science and Technology.) From our 12 bets on the "future of Open Access and Open Science", one question was to predict if (and when) the following will happen: "Among the major universities (the 400 universities in the most recent Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings) at least 20 explicitly use altmetrics in tenure decisions or allocation of resources.
" Participants could place their coins on "will happen until 2014-03-05". It's not trivial to find evidences for something like that. Best, Lambert. Paving the way to an open scientific information space: OpenAIREplus – linking peer-reviewed literature to associated data. 15 December 2011 OpenAIREplus (2nd Generation of Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe) was launched in Pisa in early December. The 30 month project, funded by the EC 7th Framework Programme, will work in tandem with OpenAIRE, extending the mission further to facilitate access to the entire Open Access scientific production of the European Research Area, providing cross-links from publications to data and funding schemes.
This large-scale project brings together 41 pan-European partners, including three cross-disciplinary research communities. The project will capitalise on the successful efforts of the OpenAIRE project which is rapidly moving from implementing the EU Open Access Pilot project into a service phase, enabling researchers to deposit their FP7 and ERA funded research publications into Open Access repositories. Contact: Prof. Prof. Dr. Plus: Linking Publications with Datasets and Funding. 06 March 2012 Understanding how different data repositories work and the policies that drive them is the first step we face in building our participatory infrastructure. A large element of the future e-infrastructure will be driven by research data, and research libraries will be essential players in guiding researchers to manage and access this data.
With that in mind, the Networking team has carried out a survey of the OpenAIRE partner European data landscape. This has been a practical exercise in determining what work lies ahead in terms of bringing data into the infrastructure. Identifying appropriate data sources is the next step. Meanwhile, the Technical team are working hard on finalizing the extended data model, liaising with our scientific partners to facilitate enhanced publications and identifying what metadata schemas best describe datasets for inclusion in the system.
For more about OpenAIREplus read here. A bad day for science. The virologists who carried out the contentious experiments on influenza H5N1 transmission in ferrets have agreed to remove certain details from their manuscript, according to ScienceInsider: Two groups of scientists who carried out highly controversial studies with the avian influenza virus H5N1 have reluctantly agreed to strike certain details from manuscripts describing their work after having been asked to do so by a U.S. biosecurity council. The as-yet unpublished papers, which are under review at Nature and Science, will be changed to minimize the risks that they could be misused by would-be bioterrorists. Apparently a second manuscript on similarly sensitive material, submitted to Nature, has been studied by the NASBB and its details will also be redacted.
Members of both scientific groups disagree with the decision. The article hints that details of the experiments may be made available to influenza virologists ‘with a legitimate interest in knowing them’. You Are (regulated by what) You Eat! RNA-Seq reveals plant microRNAs regulating expression in mammals from The Scientist Chen-Yu Zhang, a molecular biologist at Nanjing University in China, hypothesized that exogenous microRNAs, such as those ingested through the consumption of milk, could also be found circulating in the serum of mammals.
To test this idea, Zhang and his team of researchers sequenced the blood microRNAs of 31 healthy human subjects and searched for the presence of plant microRNAs. Because plant microRNAs are structurally different from those of mammals, they react differently to oxidizing agents, and the researchers were able to differentiate the two by treating them with sodium periodate, which oxidizes mammal but not plant microRNAs. (Read more…) L. Evolutionary Applications - Virtual Issue - Evolutionary Applications to Climate Change. Virtual Issue - Evolutionary Applications to Climate Change Editorial Virtual Issue All papers are free to read and download Adaptation, extinction and global change Bell G. and S. Collins. 2008 Adaptation, migration or extirpation: Climate change outcomes for tree populations Aitken, S. Adaptation as a potential response to sea-level rise: a genetic basis for salinity tolerance in populations of a coastal marsh fish Purcell, K.
A review of quantitative genetic components of fitness in salmonids: implications for adaptation to future change Carlson, S. Potential responses to climate change in organisms with complex life histories: evolution and plasticity in Pacific salmon Crozier, L. Clinal patterns of desiccation and starvation resistance in ancestral and invading populations of Drosophila subobscura Gilchrist, G. Latitudinal variation in cold hardiness in introduced Tamarix and native Populus Friedman, J. Climate change alters reproductive isolation and potential gene flow in an annual plant. Genetic variation in expression of defense phenotype may mediate evolutionary adaptation of Asclepias syriaca to elevated CO2 - VANNETTE - 2010 - Global Change Biology.
Before the Next Flood. Climate Change Master Class - WIREs Climate Change. This WIREs “Climate Change Master Class” collection brings together a number of Overview articles recently published in WIREs Climate Change. These Overview articles are written by leaders in their fields and offer ideal entry points to different fields of climate change study for students seeking introductory orientation, or for readers from particular disciplines seeking the current state-of-knowledge about climate change emerging from other disciplines.
Overview WIREs Climate Change Matthias Heymann Published Online: Jul 01 2010 DOI: 10.1002/wcc.61 Jean Jouzel,Valérie Masson‐Delmotte Published Online: Sep 02 2010 DOI: 10.1002/wcc.72 Will Steffen Published Online: May 21 2010 DOI: 10.1002/wcc.36 Peter A. Published Online: Mar 05 2010 DOI: 10.1002/wcc.34 Peter Müller Published Online: Jun 30 2010 DOI: 10.1002/wcc.60 Stephen M. Published Online: Dec 22 2009 DOI: 10.1002/wcc.16 Ortwin Renn Published Online: Jan 26 2011 DOI: 10.1002/wcc.99 Susanne C. DOI: 10.1002/wcc.11 Stephen R. Published Online: Jan 29 2010.