Accelerating access to biomedical evidence
Tweet eIFL.net partners with libraries and library consortia in over 45 developing and transition countries in Africa, Asia and Europe, extending a range of programmes and initiatives that increase access to knowledge. eIFL’s core initiatives include: Access to Knowledge for Education, Learning and Research – ensuring resources for libraries, modern IT infrastructure and skilled staff, supporting [...]
Tue, September 28 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet I just added Digital.CSIC, the Institutional Repository of the Spanish National Research Council, to this blog’s link blogroll, as they just reached the admirable accomplishment of hosting 25,000 items September 16, 2010. At the 2010 IFLA Conference, a poster session was also presented on this repository. Some facts from the poster include: • Digital.CSIC is [...]
Fri, September 24 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet As part of the NCBI publicity for the GenBank 25th Anniversary, David Lipman speaks to the importance of sharing genome access in a public database at about the three minute mark of this interview:
Mon, September 20 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet For those of us that monitor twitter™ space with a tool like tweetdeck™, the availability of a new archived pre-print like Alma Swan and Martin Hall’s Why Open Access can change science in the developing world in less than 48 hours old in the repository, and already more than 30 readers have discovered it. This [...]
Wed, September 15 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet Charles W. Bailey made this announcement on the ETD listserv: Transforming Scholarly Publishing through Open Access: A Bibliography is now available from Digital Scholarship: http://digital-scholarship.org/tsp/transforming.htm This bibliography presents over 1,100 selected English-language scholarly works useful in understanding the open access movement’s efforts to provide free access to and unfettered use of scholarly literature. The [...]
Tue, September 14 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet BioMed Central has drafted a position statement on data sharing, open data and licensing, and they have invited the wider scientific community to join the discussion to craft an explicit open data licensing policy. BMC acknowledges the Panton Principles for open data in science, adding the caveat that the scientific community ensure researchers still receive appropriate [...]
Fri, September 10 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet If you wonder why my blogging has been curtailed, I am pleasantly distracted from blogging by teaching 24 library science students about medical librarianship, and this is the beginning of the semester. Still, during my online office hour tonight, the occasion rose to actually show them the web site for Open Access Week. Hey, [...]
Wed, September 8 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet After doing a slow burn about a significant library science teaching article from the BMJ-owned Postgraduate Medical Journal and probably never getting it in PubMedCentral, I found my way back to the main page of BMJ and saw, I thought, something to credit as accellerating open access: “The BMJ (Impact Factor 13.66) provides open access [...]
Wed, September 1 2010 » Uncategorized » 2 Comments
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