On March 21, 2016, Apple introduced CareKit, “a new software framework designed to help developers enable people to actively manage their own medical conditions”. The present document aims at listing all the iOS applications that have been built with CareKit, and released on the App Store.
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When Apple introduced ResearchKit on March 9, 2015, five apps were released in partnership with a handful of labs and universities. Since then, additional apps have been listed by Apple on apple.com/researchkit/, but the official page doesn’t include all the apps that have been released since.
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Shazino today announced Neurons, a new app powered by Apple’s ResearchKit. The app is a personalized tool to help patients measure, monitor, and better manage the symptoms of multiple sclerosis.
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SciKey lets you build the perfect keyboard for your iPhone and iPad. Today, with the release of SciKey 2.1, we are pushing the customization possibilities even further.
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“When your device has no physical button, you are free to get all the digital buttons you want.” This is one of the core principles of modern mobile devices, and today we are very excited to fulfill this promise for scientists (and everyone else).
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As you probably have noticed, a lot of new startups focused on scientists have emerged in the past few years. Last Tuesday, Victor Henning from Mendeley invited 13 of these startups, including Shazino, at LeWeb in Paris for an event called “Axon@LeWeb”.
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The way research is done has greatly evolved those last years. In the 21st century, scientists are more collaborative than ever. It includes more opening by contributing to the different components of the Open Science movement, but also more real-time collaboration through the social web. Those actions are not only aimed at the scientific community, but also at the public that is more and more involved by scientists trough crowdsourcing and crowdfunding. All this lead to what is called the Science 2.0.
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Thanks to the Open Access movement, dissemination and accessibility of scientific publications have greatly evolved those last decades. Particularly related to the progress of online technologies, this evolution responds to the high demand of scientists to enhance the spreading of research results. This evolution can be assess through different statistics provided by key actors in this domain. As the Open Access movement begins with the green way of Open Access more statistics are provided for it.
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For years, amateur scientists have greatly contributed to the growth of science by measuring, collecting, and sharing raw and/or processed data with the scientific community. This involvement of the public is called ″citizen science″. The advent of technology provides more opportunities for citizen to involve themselves in this process, but also more ways for scientists to mobilize them. Websites, mobile applications, and serious games are good examples of tools used in the digital age for the public participation in science.
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French actor in the Open Science movement, HackYourPhD aims to fulfill the gap between the research world and the society. Coming from the Parisian Science&Web sphere and the OuiShare community, HackYourPhD gathers and shares information to promote the new practices arising in science.
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Nowadays scientific research need increasing computing solutions. Statistical analysis or data modeling are some examples of scientific activities requiring more computing tools. To enhance the growth of science and contribute to the Open Science movement, those tools should be accessible, modifiable and reusable without any restrictions by as many researchers as possible. These are notably key conditions to ensure the reproducibility of a study. The Free software and Open Source movements greatly contribute to the lifting of these restrictions by providing licenses allowing to do so.
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For years, the peer review process ensures the scientific quality of a research work. Originally used by journals in order to provide reliable contents to their readership, the peer review system evolves with the development of information and communication technologies. Blogs, social networks, etc. are good examples of tools allowing new peer review practices, such as open peer review or post-publication peer review.
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Being able to reproduce the results of a scientific study is a necessary condition to the progress of science. It is by this mean that a result can be validated or rejected. However, not all scientific papers provide enough information to allow researchers to replicate a study. Consequently, researchers are increasingly being encouraged to share all data related to a publication to enhance the growth of science.
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Open Access provides free and online access to scientific and scholarship publications. Generally free of most usage restrictions, it also allows researchers to re-use a paper to speed the process of research. Two different models occur in the Open Access movement. Either a publication is self-archived by a researcher in open archives, either it is published in Open Access journals.
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Open Science is a movement that aims to make research results more rapidly accessible, reusable and transparent for everybody all around the world. Based on the new information and communication technologies, Open Science conduces researchers to work in a collaborative environment to speed scientific discoveries.
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A laboratory notebook is an important tool for researchers to keep lasting traces of the laboratory activities. With the advent of technology, electronic laboratory notebooks (ELNs) are now spreading throughout the research world. Those ELNs provide a strong potential in the management of research
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With the development of the social web, the research world revises its tools of evaluation. Besides the traditional indicators, alternative metrics based on the web are now available: the altmetrics.
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A reference manager software is a very important tool for researchers. But which one should be chosen? We propose here to review comparative elements of reference managers
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