Open October 2024 

Now that October has come and gone, I’d like to take a minute to reflect on our recent Open October programming. Open October is an annual, month-long series of events highlighting trends in open science, open data and open access presented by Bernard Becker Medical Library in collaboration with Washington University Libraries. The goal of  [Read more]

November 2024 Scholarly Communications Round-up

Learn more about PubMed Central’s efforts towards equitable access, publisher agreements for discounts or waivers of Article Processing Charges, and the Smithsonian Open Access images collection.

A Becker Guide for Proteomics Data Repositories Part 1

Introduction Proteomics, the large-scale study of proteomes, is a highly valuable tool in biomedical research, but because most proteomics approaches are based on mass spectrometry (MS), the analytical chemistry nature can be a barrier to some biologists and physician-scientists. In this series of three blog articles, I would like to introduce MS-based proteomics data by  [Read more]