Tag Archives: open access
Transparency FTW! LLMs, OpenBoxScience and GetFreeCopy
Scott Edmunds - May 30, 2024
As an Open Science publisher we’ve pushed for transparency and access in the research that we disseminate, and in GigaByte journal we’ve just published a new open-source software tool “GetFreeCopy” that is demonstrative and addresses many features of this. To tell us more we have a Q&A with lead author Kuan-lin Huang, an Assistant Professor […]
GigaByte now indexed in PubMed and PubMed Central (PMC)
Scott Edmunds - February 28, 2023
GigaScience Press is pleased to announce GigaByte journal is now indexed in the NLM PubMed and PubMed Central (PMC) databases.
The first English-Spanish-Ukrainian Publication. How to publish multilingual articles with GigaByte
Scott Edmunds - November 28, 2022
GigaByte this week marks the first time multilingual articles have been simultaneously published in English, Spanish and Ukrainian. Showcasing a novel and award winning feature from our publishing platform.
Open Access Week 2021: GigaScience’s 10 Examples of Open
Scott Edmunds - October 29, 2021
For Open Access Week 2021 we look back over 10 of our favourite GigaScience papers providing examples of barriers we’ve tried to break for more open science.
Accessing and reviewing Controlled Access Data of Rare Cancers. Q&A with Matthieu Foll
Scott Edmunds - November 4, 2020
We have a Q&A with author Matthieu Foll from the WHO/(IARC on his new GigaScience paper presenting multi-omic data from rare lung neuroendocrine neoplasms and his experience having the precious Controlled Access data peer reviewed by named peer reviewers.
GigaScience joins C19RapidReview: the COVID-19 Rapid Review Initiative
Scott Edmunds - May 29, 2020
C19RapidReview: cross publisher collaboration against the coronavirus pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic has created a new urgency to openly and rapidly share and review relevant research, with the world looking to science to solve the problems we currently face. While we’ve written about constructive things you can do while in lockdown, there are many more things […]
Democratising Data: The African Orphan Crops Consortium & International Data Week
Scott Edmunds - December 7, 2018
Pressing Challenges for the Global Research Community Continuous growth of the world population is expected to double the worldwide demand for food by 2050. Eighty-eight percent of countries currently face a serious burden of malnutrition, especially in Africa and South-East Asia. To diversify and stabilize global food supply, enhance agricultural productivity and tackle malnutrition, greater […]
Open bioinformatics in the house of the mouse.
Scott Edmunds - July 10, 2016
The 2016 Bioinformatics Open Source Conference has just finished here at Disney World Orlando, and here is the write up of the meeting, with discussion on the merits of open bioinformatics and closed cartoons.
Big Data Challenges and Solutions in Contemporary Ecology: A Guest Blog by Chris Lortie
Nicole Nogoy - April 26, 2016
Chris Lortie is an integrative ecologist (Santa Barbara, USA and York University, Canada) and is a co-Guest Editor of our Data-Intensive Ecology series. Here, he shares his views on a few challenges and solutions in contemporary ecology as the field moves into the big-data era.
Open Data Publishing Goes New Zealand: A Cross Posting For Creative Commons Aotearoa
Nicole Nogoy - February 10, 2015
Our New Zealand based Editor Nicole Nogoy was asked by Creative Commons Aotearoa to write a guest blog on open licensing from a Kiwi perspective