Accelerating access to biomedical evidence
Tweet There are some strange summer mornings in the country, when he who is but a sojourner from the city shall early walk forth into the fields, and be wonder-smitten with the trance-like aspect of the green and golden world. Not a flower stirs; the trees forget to wave; the grass itself seems to have [...]
Fri, August 26 2011 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet It seems to be provocative that I claim some journals promote a culture of support for NIH open access author mandates and some don’t. Let’s look at a peer group of well-regarded and frequently cited journals familiar to many, the Medicine (miscellaneous) category, using Scimago: Here’s my chart of the top 10 for the [...]
Thu, August 25 2011 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet Raoul Kamadjeu is a physician, co-founder of the Pan African Medical Journal. He is driven in all his projects by a simple motto: “Start small, but think big..!” He received his doctorate in Medicine in Cameroon and completed his MPH in Belgium (ULB). He has experienced a broad spectrum of public health practice, from [...]
Sun, August 21 2011 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet In searching PMC recently, I was finding significant numbers of articles deposited from very notable journals, the outcome of results from NIH funded research. What proportion of annual research articles from any one journal end up on PMC? Because the NIH Open Access Policy gives authors at least 12 months to comply and deposit, [...]
Thu, August 18 2011 » Uncategorized » 4 Comments
Tweet And the preprint says, ahhh…Miles Davis…. Blue in Green. Stevan Harnad has issued a polite request to SHERPA/RoMEO to update their color scheme. Stevan’s logic speaks for itself. Here he is on another occasion, making important points about green open access:
Mon, August 15 2011 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet Stevan Harnad alerted me earlier this year that Elsevier is a fully green open access publisher. Authors can archive pre-print or post-print copies (the one exception for Elsevier, according to SHERPA/RoMEO, is The Lancet: only a word-processed version of a peer-reviewed, accepted, and edited article from The Lancet can be placed on a personal [...]
Sun, August 14 2011 » Uncategorized » 3 Comments
Tweet The word is getting around from places like Library Journal that the recently formed Coalition of Open Access Policy Institutions (COAPI) will meet in person for the first time at a pre-conference meeting at the Berlin 9 Open Access Conference in Washington, DC, in early November 2011. Just as SPARC fostered a vibrant [...]
Thu, August 11 2011 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet No, this is not a new word game. There is a flow of ideas, starting with a publisher’s genuine attempt to connect scientists to science educators. I saw the tweeting about Scientific American and the Nature Publishing Group starting an initiative called “1,000 Scientists in 1,000 Days” to try to introduce scientists to science [...]
Mon, August 8 2011 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet I think those that appreciated my original post on NCBI images want to know how to find the images, now that NCBI images has disappeared as a separate database. The National Library of Medicine (NLM) actually updated the original October 22, 2010 Technical Bulletin announcement article with an editor’s note on July 22nd: [Editor’s [...]
Thu, August 4 2011 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet I’m writing about Profiles in Science after seeing the announcement about the release of a selection from the papers of American surgeon Clarence Dennis (1909-2005), who developed one of the first heart-lung bypass machines. Profiles in Science began in 1998 as a digital library research collaboration between the U.S. National Library of Medicine’s Lister [...]
Wed, August 3 2011 » Uncategorized » No Comments
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