Accelerating access to biomedical evidence
In a story line out of the post- Reagan excesses of substituting the private sector for governement activity, the Journal of the National Cancer Institute (JNCI), a highly respected research journal for a narrow, exclusive slice of taxpayers, is neither published nor sponsored by the National Cancer Institute(NCI). It participates in Pubmed Central archiving only at the bare minimum [...]
Wed, June 23 2010 » Uncategorized » 2 Comments
Google Books was formerly known as Google Print when it was introduced in October 2004 at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Google’s Library Project, also now known as Google Book Search, was announced in December 2004. At ETD2010, the 13th international symposium sponsored by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertation (NDLTD) the current Engineering [...]
Mon, June 21 2010 » Uncategorized » 2 Comments
Pianist George Cables wrote and played Dark Side, Light Side. It came to mind in thinking about Nature Publishing Group (NPG) and the recent dust-up with the University of California Libraries. Yes, that million dollar misunderstanding. Last week a letter to University of California (UC) faculty by librarians from the 10 UC campuses was sent to NPG [...]
Mon, June 14 2010 » Uncategorized » 1 Comment
The Harvey Cushing /John Hay Whitney Medical Library (yes, my library!) of Yale University has recently digitized and released a collection of digitally reproduced full-text books by and about neurosurgeon Harvey Cushing. Dr. Cushing is widely regarded as the greatest neurosurgeon of the 20th century and often called the “father of modern neurosurgery”. Here are some [...]
Wed, June 9 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
The United Kingdom’s SHERPA (Securing a Hybrid Environment for Research Preservation and Access) is based at the Centre for Research Communications, University of Nottingham and works on projects related to open Access and repository development. Think of SHERPA as a British equivalent of ARL’s (Association of Research Libraries) SPARC (Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition). [...]
Sun, June 6 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., has decided to offer an open access option for publications like the Journal of Neurotrauma. Most, if not all Liebert journals offer authors of accepted articles the opportunity to post their work free online with immediate unrestricted open access for a $3,000 fee. Subsequent articles using the open access option will receive a [...]
Fri, June 4 2010 » Uncategorized » 1 Comment
Joining the Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry as a fully funded, foundation supported open access journal, the Beilstein-Institut, a non-profit foundation located in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, has just formally announced the launch of the Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology. The Editor-in-Chief is Professor Thomas Schimmel, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. The Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology publishes [...]
Tue, June 1 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
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