Neo4j is an open-source, high-performance, enterprise-grade NOSQL transactional property graph database. For connected data operations, Neo4j runs a thousand times faster than relational databases.
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Open Tree Of Life: Connecting millions of data points in a graph database
Link: http://www.neo4j.org/
OAPEN-UK is a collaborative research project gathering evidence to help stakeholders in making well-thought decisions on the future of open access scholarly monograph publishing in the humanities and social sciences (HSS).
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JISC: OAPEN-UK explores the challenges of open access scholarly monograph
An open community that promotes the creation and use of open knowledge and provides projects from various disciplines, groups and tools to support knowledge sharing.
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PLOS Biology: The Open Knowledge Foundation: Open Data Means Better Science
Link: http://www.okfn.org
A peer-reviewed, independent, open-access journal that believes in the creative re-use of data under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike License.
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Wiki: Open Medicine
Open Medicine. A peer-reviewed, independent, open access journal: “The Open Medicine student peer review program” research paper by Parabhdeep Lail, Krista Wilkinson, and Amy Metcalfe.
This platform offers cloud services for the scientific community by providing petabyte-scale cloud resources that enhance the analyzing, managing, and sharing of data.
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Open Cloud Consortium: Open Science Data Cloud
A nonprofit organization’s platform that provides design, development, hosting, and support for a bevy of sites, blogs and networks for open science platforms.
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blue rasberry : Open Science Federation
A platform that fosters open discussions and conducts research about scientific practice. Furthermore it provides tools and infrastructure for open science activities which include instruments to improve the documentation of scientific workflows and the definition of the replication value of existing findings.
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youtube: How does Open Science Framework?
Funded by the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation the Open Science Grid advances science through open distributed computing and provides service such as support for resource providers and scientific institutions using a distributed fabric of high throughput computational services.
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A platform that provides open science projects, a wiki for the documentation of scientific workflows and a blog containing recent news about the open movement.
This project aims to produce and publish the first online tree of all 1.8 million named species. Furthermore it enables the dynamic development, test and improvement of data synthesis methods by offering tools for collaboration between computational and empirical biologists.
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Nature: Data deposition: Missing data mean holes in tree of life (by B. Drew)
OpenAIRE aims to set up support structures for researchers, establish and operate an electronic infrastructure for handling published articles and work with different communities to explore the framework conditions for research publications.
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open access: OpenAIRE
Link: https://www.openaire.eu
Wiki platform for biology and biological engineering that enables open exchange, sharing of information and know-how. A directory of labs and groups helps to find collaborators.
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The Journal of Clinical Investigation: Science rides the online wave
openbiomed.info: Does Open WetWare go anywhere from here?
Wikipedia: OpenWetWare
A platform for peer reviewing of scholarly communications that enables users to make works visible to scholarly search engines and track the impact and reuse of shared online data.
A platform that provides a service to help consumers benefit from their passions, interests and influence particularly with respect to the services they get from companies; and for brands and agencies to better identify effective and interested word-of-mouth advocates.
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Link: http://www.peerindex.com
A peer-reviewed academic journal that offers Open Access publishing of scholarly articles by providing two publications serving the Biological and Medical sciences. Authors pay for a lifetime membership, which gives them the ability to publish their articles for free.
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Link: http://peerj.com/
The Public Knowledge Project is dedicated to improving the scholarly and public quality of research. It provides the leading open source software for journal and conference management and publishing.
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Link: http://pkp.sfu.ca
PLoS Medicine is basically a journal, where article submission is possible under Creative Common licenses.
A solution to the author ambiguity problem within the scholarly research community: Each member is assigned a unique identifier to enable researchers to manage their publication lists, track their times cited counts and h-index, identify potential collaborators and avoid author misidentification.
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RSC Advancing the Chemical Sciences: End of the road for h-index rankings
rOpenSci aims to create packages that allow access to data repositories through the R statistical programming environment that is already a familiar part of the workflow of many scientists.
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ProgrammableWeb: PW Interview: Karthik Ram, rOpenSci, Wrapping all science APIs
Link: http://www.ropensci.org/
Professional network of medical doctors and students; forums enable discussions and peer-guidance.
Platform allows fast publication of ideas and knowledge by providing ways for scientists to develop their thoughts and share technology to commercial or academic applications. Free membership to Research Scientists, Technology Managers, and Industry Representatives.
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Open Access News: Launch of Sci-mate
Link: http://www.sci-mate.org/
An open online teaching/learning portal combining high quality educational articles authored by editors at NPG with technology-based community features to fuel a global exchange of scientific insights, teaching practices, and study resources. Scitable currently contains articles in the field of genetics, and is intended for college undergraduate faculty and students.
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A platform that provides solutions for institutions performing research. Whether an institution is conducting research or funding, SciVal makes data about performance, planning and funding more visible and accessible.
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Research Trends: Layered assessment: Using SciVal Strata to examine research performance
This website gathers information on open access movement but also organizes workshops, conferences etc. to promote open science and open access.
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See also: http://www.sparc.arl.org/index.shtml
Open source management software which supports the collection, organization, citation, and sharing of research sources by providing specific collaborative tools.
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Link: http://zotero.com