Yesterday, we started an interview with Justin Adams, senior author on a recent PLOS ONE paper discussing a newly available set of 3D digital…
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Interview Author Interview: Justin Adams on a New Digital Fossil Archive (Part 2)
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Interview Author Interview: Justin Adams on a New Digital Fossil Archive (Part 1)
As a digital fossil buff, I’m always excited to learn about new efforts for serving 3D fossil data. Thus, a recent PLOS ONE paper by…
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Open Access Collaboration with Microsoft Extends Article Visibility and Lifecycle
As part of ongoing efforts to improve discovery, reuse and impact of PLOS content, articles published by PLOS and available in PDF…
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Alt-Metrics Momentum for Article-Level Metrics: New Uses
Reproduced here from the original June 11, 2014 PLOS Newsroom post The visibility of a research article extends beyond the journal in which it…
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Open Access Behind the Scenes at PhyloPic
Open science is about more than just tossing some publications and data notebooks into the digital ether. It’s all about communication–so, at…
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Dinosaurs The Curse of the Horned Dinosaur Egg
Horned dinosaurs (ceratopsians) just can’t catch a break when it comes to their fossilized eggs. The first purported examples turned up in…
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Open Access The Figure Makes the Fossil
As I wrap up revisions on a manuscript, as well as continuing the day to day work in “my” museum collection, I’ve…
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Open Access Sharing Paleodata (Part 3): MorphoBank
Today I am making good on an old promise to highlight more repositories for paleontological raw data. Previous posts in this series…
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Open Access Sharing Paleodata (Part 2): Dryad
As promised, today I begin a series on repositories used for paleontological raw data. I will focusing on repositories to which data…
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Technology Restoring That Sense of Wonder
[Note from the author: Given the craziness of summer, I’m going to be a little lazy this week and repost something from…
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Open Data Cracking the Code of Bone-Cracking Carnivores
Finite element analysis, or FEA, is a computer modeling technique that lets researchers simulate how structures “behave” under various conditions. For instance…
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Alt-Metrics A mine of information – the PLOS Text Mining Collection
The growth of Open Access has increased the pool of digital information that is available for Text Mining. This relatively new interdisciplinary…