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- Distinguished Journal of Socially Engaged Religious Thought Goes Digital
- ProGlycProt: a repository of experimentally characterized prokaryotic glycoproteins.
- Openness as infrastructure
- Recommendations for Mass Spectrometry Data Quality Metrics for Open Access Data (Corollary to the Amsterdam Principles).
- History and structures of telecommunication in pathology, focusing on open access platforms.
- BioTechniques - The Many Challenges of Open Access
- Utah State University Signs Declaration on Open Access
| Distinguished Journal of Socially Engaged Religious Thought Goes Digital Posted: 14 Nov 2011 07:30 AM PST library.columbia.edu Founded in 1939, Union Seminary Quarterly Review (USQR), Union Theological Seminary’s journal committed to interfaith, interdenominational, and interdisciplinary dialogue, has launched its open-access website at http://usqr.utsnyc.edu. |
| ProGlycProt: a repository of experimentally characterized prokaryotic glycoproteins. Posted: 13 Nov 2011 12:09 PM PST Nucleic acids research, (28 Oct 2011) Abstract: ProGlycProt (http://www.proglycprot.org/) is an open access, manually curated, comprehensive repository of bacterial and archaeal glycoproteins with at least one experimentally validated glycosite (glycosylated residue). To facilitate maximum information at one point, the database is arranged under two sections: (i) ProCGP-the main data section consisting of 95 entries with experimentally characterized glycosites and (ii) ProUGP-a supplementary data section containing 245 entries with experimentally identified glycosylation but uncharacterized glycosites. Every entry in the database is fully cross-referenced and enriched with available published information about source organism, coding gene, protein, glycosites, glycosylation type, attached glycan, associated oligosaccharyl/glycosyl transferases (OSTs/GTs), supporting references, and applicable additional information. Interestingly, ProGlycProt contains as many as 174 entries for which information is unavailable or the characterized glycosites are unannotated in Swiss-Prot release 2011_07. The website supports a dedicated structure gallery of homology models and crystal structures of characterized glycoproteins in addition to two new tools developed in view of emerging information about prokaryotic sequons (conserved sequences of amino acids around glycosites) that are never or rarely seen in eukaryotic glycoproteins. ProGlycProt provides an extensive compilation of experimentally identified glycosites (334) and glycoproteins (340) of prokaryotes that could serve as an information resource for research and technology applications in glycobiology. |
| Posted: 13 Nov 2011 12:06 PM PST www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Abstract: The advent of open access to peer reviewed scholarly literature in the biomedical sciences creates the opening to examine scholarship in general, and chemistry in particular, to see where and how novel forms of network technology can accelerate the scientific method. This paper examines broad trends in information access and openness with an eye towards their applications in chemistry. |
| Posted: 13 Nov 2011 12:04 PM PST Proteomics, (08 Nov 2011) Abstract: Policies supporting the rapid and open sharing of proteomic data are being implemented by the leading journals in the field. The proteomics community is taking steps to ensure that data are made publicly accessible and are of high quality, a challenging task that requires the development and deployment of methods for measuring and documenting data quality metrics. On September 18, 2010, the U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI) convened the "International Workshop on Proteomic Data Quality Metrics" in Sydney, Australia, to identify and address issues facing the development and use of such methods for open access proteomics data. The stakeholders at the workshop enumerated the key principles underlying a framework for data quality assessment in mass spectrometry data that will meet the needs of the research community, journals, funding agencies, and data repositories. Attendees discussed and agreed up on two primary needs for the wide use of quality metrics: (i) an evolving list of comprehensive quality metrics and (ii) standards accompanied by software analytics. Attendees stressed the importance of increased education and training programs to promote reliable protocols in proteomics. This workshop report explores the historic precedents, key discussions, and necessary next steps to enhance the quality of open access data. |
| History and structures of telecommunication in pathology, focusing on open access platforms. Posted: 13 Nov 2011 12:02 PM PST Diagnostic pathology 6 (1), 110 (07 Nov 2011) ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Telecommunication has matured to a broadly applied tool in diagnostic pathology. Technology and Systems: Contemporary with the development of fast electronic communication lines (Integrated digital network services (ISDN), broad band connections, and fibre optics, as well as the digital imaging technology (digital camera), telecommunication in tissue - based diagnosis (telepathology) has matured. Open access (internet) and server - based communication have induced the development of specific medical information platforms, such as iPATH, UICC-TPCC (telepathology consultation centre of the Union International against Cancer), or the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP) teleconsultation system. They have been closed, and are subject to be replaced by specific open access forums (Medical Electronic Expert Communication System (MECES) with embedded virtual slide (VS) technology). MECES uses php language, data base driven mySqL architecture, X/L-AMPP infrastructure, and browser friendly W3C conform standards. Experiences: The server - based medical communication systems (AFIP, iPATH, UICC-TPCC) have been reported to be a useful and easy to handle tool for expert consultation. Clients' sampling, and evaluation of transmitted still images by experts revealed no or only minor differences to the original images and good practice of the involved experts. Beta tests with the new generation medical expert consultation systems (MECES) revealed superior results in terms of performance, still image viewing, and system handling, especially as this is closely related to the use of so - called social forums (facebook, youtube, etc.). Benefits and Expectations: In addition to the acknowledged advantages of the former established systems (assistance of pathologists working in developing countries, diagnosis confirmation, international information exchange, etc.), the new generation offers additional benefits such as acoustic information transfer, assistance in image screening, VS technology, and teaching in diagnostic sampling, judgement, and verification. |
| BioTechniques - The Many Challenges of Open Access Posted: 13 Nov 2011 12:01 PM PST www.biotechniques.com "The near closing of The Scientist should serve as a wake-up call to everyone in the life science community. As our economy starts to rebuild, it is important not to take for granted the high-quality content provided by various magazines and journals working to keep the open access concept alive through whatever model. While the financial health of scientific journals and magazine should not be at the forefront of a researcher's mind, it is important that everyone appreciate the challenges that come with providing an open access title and support such publications in any way possible. Readers should pass along issues to their colleagues, authors should continue to champion open access publications by publishing their articles in them, and advertisers and funding agencies should maintain support for this critical means of delivering science to the masses...." |
| Utah State University Signs Declaration on Open Access Posted: 13 Nov 2011 11:30 AM PST media-newswire.com " In early October, Utah State University joined an elite group of universities in the United States to actively endorse a commitment to make scholarly work widely available. On Oct. 5, Executive Vice President and Provost Raymond T. Coward signed the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities. With his signature, Utah State became one of the first American universities — and the first in Utah — to join the ever-growing list of international universities and organizations to endorse the declaration’s goals, according to Richard Clement, dean of libraries at USU...." |
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