Accelerating access to biomedical evidence
Tweet The point of having a blog is to write musings that do not get pre-publication peer review, but court public opinion in the form of comments. This week, I offer you a poll. First, an explanation. I just read “Chinese Medicine simply does not belong in the company of respectable scientific journals” [...]
Thu, March 31 2011 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet The HBCU (Historically Black Colleges & Universities) Library Alliance was launched 10 years ago, in 2001. According to a 2005 project overview of the Cornell University collaboration with the HBCU Alliance, In 2003 the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded Cornell University Library (CUL) a planning grant to investigate the development of a collaborative digital [...]
Mon, March 28 2011 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet When I discovered someone identified as the Indispensable Man of Open Science , I also found out about Cameron Neylon’s and other scientists creating open notebook science (making the entire primary record of a research project publicly available online) and a website called Open Wetware(OWW). OWW is both an open science content site and [...]
Tue, March 22 2011 » Uncategorized » 1 Comment
Tweet Peter Suber counted 14 new OA journal or book publishers established in 2009: Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals (QScience.com) (publishing Perspectives in International Librarianship!) Bookbon (apparently deceased) Fountain Publishers (the open access experiment apparently ended) French Creek Press (humanities, and if there is OA here, it is hidden) Impact Journals (IMHO the class of this [...]
Sun, March 20 2011 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet This is the text of a press release that went out through my Regional Medical Library network at 4:00pm EST. Although the subscriptions are not officially open access, all the meaningful medlineplus pages are: The National Library of Medicine announces the activation of the Emergency Access Initiative in support of medical efforts in Japan [...]
Tue, March 15 2011 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics is a new fully open access journal from the Genetics Society of America, scheduled to start accepting manuscripts in June 2011. This is one of a handful of journals that intend to emulate the success of PLoS ONE by emphasizing data quality and utility, rapid editorial turn-around and publication, and full open access. From the [...]
Tue, March 15 2011 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet I couple of weeks ago I installed the google translate widget (top right side, above the search box), which allows my blog content to be translated (not perfectly, but fairly understandably) into more than 50 languages. I have also had the ReadSpeaker utility attached to every post (the button that says listen), so that you [...]
Mon, March 14 2011 » Uncategorized » 1 Comment
Tweet I read with great interest Peter Suber’s account in the watershed events section of SPARC Open Access Newsletter, issue #155 of Elsevier’s first author fee-based (gold) open access publication, the International Journal of Case Surgery Reports (IJSCR). After all, I am the Library Liaison for Surgery at the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, and this might [...]
Sat, March 12 2011 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet I really don’t care if InTechWeb has published 340+ books, 25,000+ authors, +2.5 million downloaded papers, all of them open access. I also don’t care that there are 25,029 persons in Facebook that claim to like them. There are places in the world, during these hard economic times, that specialize in creating a virtual population or marketing [...]
Thu, March 10 2011 » Uncategorized » 2 Comments
Tweet The most significant scholarly re-focus on persistent, neglected illness in tropical areas was the support the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation provided to help launch in 2007 the open access journal PLos Neglected Tropical Diseases (PloSNTDS), now the leading Tropical Medicine journal in the Journal Citation Report (JCR) impact factor ranking. For 2009, PloSNTDS has an [...]
Tue, March 8 2011 » Uncategorized » No Comments
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