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The Journal of Biomedical Discovery and Collaboration (DISCO) is an Open Access, peer-reviewed online journal that will encompass all aspects of scientific information management and studies of scientific practice. Currently, many scattered disciplines study aspects of scientific practice, including informatics, computer science, sociology, cognitive psychology, scientometrics, rhetoric, public policy, technology innovation, and history and philosophy of science. The journal will connect these disparate perspectives with each other, and with contemporary scientific practice. The Journal of Biomedical Discovery and Collaboration was published by Biomed Central from 2006-2008.
DISCO considers the following types of articles:
Research articles - include scholarly studies of scientific practice, information needs, tool development, scientific rhetoric, bibliometrics, data representation methods, and so forth. Studies of text mining, information management, Bio-NLP and literature-based discovery are especially encouraged. Researchers are also encouraged to submit 'discovery notes', which describe literature-based discovery or data mining findings that follow systematic methodology and that make clear, testable, nontrivial experimental predictions that deserve the attention of a wide community of scientists.
Case studies - describe and critically evaluate individual laboratories, research groups or training programs - for example, how they attempt to foster discovery and collaboration, how they monitor productivity, lessons learned that can be generalized to other programs, and an analysis of factors that determine the rate of progress.
Focus articles - short, opinionated, narrowly focused articles on issues of contemporary interest.
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