Thursday, 25 October 2012

SciVerse Applications Gallery

SciVerse Applications Gallery

Sciverse (Elsevier) integrates ScienceDirect, Scopus, and targeted Web content, with community developed applications

American Chemical Society Training Sessions in Trinity Wed 31st & Thur 1st November

Dublin, Ireland | ACS on Campus

 Sessions include: SciFinder Training, Careers in Chemistry: What can I do with a PhD? What is this thing called Work/Life Balance?Basics of Scholarly Publishing: From the Editors Themselves

Tuesday, 9 October 2012

NUI Maynooth breakthrough offers hope for treatment of immune-mediated diseases

The possibility of new treatments for debilitating diseases such as Multiple Sclerosis has been opened up with a breakthrough discovery by a research team at NUI Maynooth. Its findings have been accepted and published in the prestigious 'Nature Immunology' journal.

Research evaluation should be pragmatic, not a choice between peer review and metrics

Responding to the growing momentum of movements, such as DORA and CoARA, Giovanni Abramo argues for a more nuanced balance between the use o...