Accelerating access to biomedical evidence
Tweet Kudos to the SOAP Project and their intention to share the highlights of their survey data openly. The data was just posted in the arXiv.org repository: Yes, I downloaded the 21.5 MB XLS .csv version of more than 43,000 survey responses by scientists. Using a simple find all command, I can sort out an analyze a [...]
Mon, January 31 2011 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet There are at least five established subscription journals focusing on the science of sleep: Journal of Sleep Research, Sleep, Sleep and Biological Rhythms, Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, and Sleep Medicine Reviews. But as the rhythm of biomedical publishing switches toward open access, there are at least four established or new open access journals [...]
Sat, January 29 2011 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet At a workshop conference I attended earlier this week on building digital library capacity in the Northern Africa Maghreb countries, one presentation seemed appropriate for this blog. Walter L. Warnick, Ph.D., Director of the Office of Scientific and Technical Information for the U.S. Department of Energy, introduced the attendees to WorldWideScience.org, a federated full-text database of scientific [...]
Thu, January 27 2011 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet I kept looking at the home page for the Ranking Web of World Repositories, maintained by the Cybermetrics Lab (CSIC), with both admiration and confusion. Repositories are the backbone of the green open access movement, and here were comparative statistics for institutional efforts all over the world. There is even a banner across the [...]
Sat, January 22 2011 » Uncategorized » 3 Comments
Tweet Not so long ago, in October 2008, Springer Science+Business Media acquired the BioMed Central Group (BMC) and its 180 open access journals (now up to 208). BMC continues to operate as a wholly owned subsidiary within Springer’s Science+Business Media and do some interesting things. Recently we have heard about the launch of a new [...]
Wed, January 19 2011 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet On a morning which happens to allow me a leisurely breakfast and browsing beyond the front page of the printed edition of my January 17, 2011, local newspaper, I found an Associated Press(AP) wire story “Cancer survivor aims to raze barriers with app” right next to the obituaries (not exactly front page news). [...]
Mon, January 17 2011 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet Many readers know I am a medical librarian, and many readers have met me at Medical Library Association (MLA) activities. Medical libraries are valued for making health information accessible, organized, and useful, and one prominent role for academic and hospital libraries is the collection management role: providing campus-wide institutional access that can tempt and often [...]
Sat, January 15 2011 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet [I have received the comment below from Stevan that pale or not, Elsevier is fully green. I stand corrected. ] Green open access refers to self-archiving pre-prints and post-prints of research articles, essentially freeing research results from the closed silo of subscription access. Here is Stevan Harnad’s graphic depiction of maximized research access and impact through [...]
Thu, January 13 2011 » Uncategorized » 1 Comment
Tweet Nature Publishing, still smarting from last year’s rejection of institutional price increases from a couple of academic library systems, has apparently studied the recent success of PLoS ONE ( as an interdisciplinary science journal, PLoSONE instantly ranked in the 2009 top 10 Biology ISI impact factor journals after two previous years of data) and launched [...]
Fri, January 7 2011 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet I hope you already know about these timely and important sites: The Digital Repository Federation (DRF) is a Japanese federation consisting of 87 universities and research institutes (as of February 2009), which aims to promote open access and institutional repositories in Japan. In Japan, the National Institute of Informatics (NII), Tokyo, has also supported institutional [...]
Wed, January 5 2011 » Uncategorized » No Comments
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