Open access publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced that its journal BMC Research Notes has published a new thematic series on data standardisation, sharing and publication. The journal launched a series of educational articles, as it publishes the first of the numerous manuscripts received since September 2010.
This new article by Tony Mathys and Maged Boulos gives an overview of the geospatial resources available for the health research community and public health sector to help them manage and share their data. It joins a previously published Data Note by Andrew Vickers and Angel Cronin and an editorial call for contributions in the series.
The series, supervised by guest Editors and prominent Open Data advocates Dr Bill Hooker and Prof David Shotton, is expected to grow substantially in 2011 as the journal is receiving contributions from across biology and medicine, including proteomics, flow cytometry, metabolomics, brain mapping and open bibliography.
BMC Research Notes has called for more contributions, and authors are currently entitled to a full waiver of the article processing charge for accepted articles in this series. Articles should describe a domain-specific data standard and provide an example data set with the article, or a link to data that are permanently hosted elsewhere. The journal is also interested in receiving contributions to the series on broader aspects of scientific data sharing, archiving, and open data.
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