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1. JoVE from a Knowledge Perspective
2. JoVE Origins, Structure, Traffic, Editorial
   Board, PubMed

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JoVE The Knowledge Perspective
Amidst the plenty of todays online video
content, the implications of the video format for
the life sciences is easily overlooked. Life
Science is a craft scientists as craftsmen/
-women. Craftsmen rely on two types of
knowledge explicit and tacit. Explicit
knowledge is articulated and codified in natural
language or text. Since Gutenbergs invention of
the printing press around 1439 explicit knowledge
in the sciences has been shared relatively
unchanged in the form of data, scientific
articles, and product manuals.
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JoVE Challenges and Solution
The tacit dimension of knowledge is largely
comprised of the scientists concrete know-how,
crafts, and skills that apply to a specific
context. With traditional text-based media the
concrete know-how to perform highly complex
experiments is difficult, if not impossible, to
capture, distribute, and share. JoVEs video
format however, has introduced a medium and
format which for the first time - allows to
capture and distribute the vital tacit dimension
of scientific knowledge. Until JoVE, tacit
knowledge in life science research was typically
shared on an individual basis, a process that
typically started of with the question can you
please show me how to.
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JoVE facts

• Founded in late 2006 at Harvard Stem Cell
  Institute (HSCI) / Harvard Medical School
• Incorporated in Massachusetts in February 2007
• Over 290 Video Articles Published (February
  2009)
• Pipeline gt 50 application videos
• First and only video-based biomedical
  journal/platform to be accepted to PubMed

Publishing Partners
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JoVE facts
PubMed
Addition of Text
Source Statcounter
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JoVE frontpage
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JoVE Articles Video Text
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JoVE Editorial Board Veterinarian Advisory Board
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JoVE First and only Video-Based Journal to be
Indexed in PubMed
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JoVE 1st Nature Citation