Science Ajar - New Ways to Collect, Curate and Share Information

<p>Presentation given by Dr Jeremy Frey during the Research Trends Virtual Seminar </p> <p><em>The Individual and Scholarly Networks: Part 1: Building Networks:</em></p> <p>Professor Jeremy Frey discussed how varying degrees of openness aid scientific collaboration. His presentation had the underlying theme that accurate recording of process and data in experiments is essential and that the laboratory, equipment and people are potentially equal partners in this process, which can be facilitated by the right choice of software.</p

Indium in the environment

This bachelor thesis is focused on the presence, bonds and concentration of indium in various spheres of the environment. It presents a comprehensive overview of the distribution of indium in rocks, waters, air and organisms, its concentrations, speciation, mobility and refers to its toxicity. It also provides the basic physical and chemical properties of indium and its compounds, mineralogy and geochemistry. The major Czech and world deposits are reported. At the end it devotes significant world producers of indium, and also mentions recycling procedures of this element. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org

MOESM6 of Effects of using structured templates for recalling chemistry experiments

Additional file 8: Data file 8. The results from Study 3

The Individual and Scholarly Networks: Building Networks - Discussion

<p>The Individual and Scholarly Networks was a two-part seminar organized by Research Trends and Elsevier Labs on January 22, 2013. Webcast live from Oxford, Amsterdam and New York, the presentations were recorded and are available here, along with links to slides and additional questions and answers. The seminar was led by Michael Taylor, Research Specialist at Elsevier Labs with additional contributions from Dr Henk Moed and Dr Gali Halevi of Research Trends</p> <p>Researchers are increasingly using social network type platforms to form relationships and ad-hoc research reading groups.</p> <p>Part 1 - Building Networks focused on the ways in which these relationships are formed and maintained, and how they are changing the nature of scholarly relationships.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p

‘The eCrystals Federation’ Management and Publication of Small Molecule Structure Data for the Whole Crystallographic Community

<p>Thirty years ago a research student would present about five crystal structures as their PhD thesis, however with modern technologies and good crystals this can now be achieved in the timespan of a single morning. This increase in pace of generation further exacerbates a problem in the communication of the results. Additionally, the general route for the publication of a crystal structure report is coupled with and often governed by the underlying chemistry and is therefore subject to the lengthy peer review process and tied to the timing of the publication as a whole. This bottleneck in the dissemination of crystal structure data hinders the potential growth of databases and the data mining studies that are reliant on these collections (just 500,000 small unit cell crystal structures are available in the CSD, ICSD & CRYSMET). In addition, publication in the mainstream literature still offers only indirect (and often subscription controlled) access to this data.</p> <p>The eBank-UK (http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/projects/ebank-uk/) project has addressed this problem by establishing an institutional data repository that supports, manages and disseminates metadata relating to crystal structure data (i.e. all the files generated during a crystal structure determination). This process alters the traditional method of peer review by openly providing crystal structure data where the reader or user may directly check correctness and validity. The repository (http://ecrystals.chem.soton.ac.uk) makes available all the raw, derived and results data from a crystallographic experiment with little further researcher effort after the creation of a normal completed structure in a laboratory archive. Not only does this approach allow rapid release of crystal structure data into the public domain, but it can also provide mechanisms for value added services that allow rapid discovery of the data for further studies and reuse, whilst ownership of the data is retained by the creator.</p

MOESM1 of Electronic lab notebooks: can they replace paper?

Additional file 1. A file describing how to access the focus groups and lab observations transcripts from Study D—University of Southampton Lab Practice Study (Focus Groups & Lab Observations)