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Author: Roberta Pastorino, Sonja Milovanovic, Jovana Stojanovic, Ljupcho Efremov, Rosarita Amore, Ljupcho Efremov, Stefania Boccia

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Editors’ Choice: Quality Assessment of Studies Published in Open Access and Subscription Journals: Results of a Systematic Evaluation

Along with the proliferation of Open Access (OA) publishing, the interest for comparing the scientific quality of studies published in OA journals versus subscription journals has also increased. With our study we aimed to compare the methodological quality and the quality of reporting of primary epidemiological studies and systematic reviews and meta-analyses published in OA […]

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Funding: RDA Europe Travel grants for DH2016 RDA/ADHO Workshop

From the announcement: RDA EU3 has approved three travel bursaries of €500 each to support participation in  RDA/ADHO Workshop: Evaluating Research Data Infrastructure Components and Engaging in their Development at DH2016 in Krakow, July 12-16, 2016. In order to apply for this grant, applicants must reside/work in Europe. The purpose of the grants is  to […]

News, Resources

Resource: R packages, secret keys, and testing on Appveyor

From the resource: In the wake of defending my dissertation and landing a new job, I’ve been relaxing by polishing up an R package, PastecR that wraps the API for Pastec, an open-source fuzzy image matching engine. The creator of Pastec recently launched a hosted version of the service of the service. I’ve just updated […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Enchanting the Desert

THIS WORK IS BASED ON a single historical document: a slideshow made by commercial photographer Henry G. Peabody between 1899-1930 at the Grand Canyon of Arizona. The project reconstructs Peabody’s slideshow in a web-based medium, allowing readers to see beyond the photographer’s presentation of his forty-three individual image-objects. Enchanting the Desert, instead, uses the photographs […]

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Resource: 1.8 Million Free Works of Art from World-Class Museums

Since the first stirrings of the internet, artists and curators have puzzled over what the fluidity of online space would do to the experience of viewing works of art… Below the list of galleries, find links to online collections of several hundred art books to read online or download. Continue to watch this space: We’ll […]