Accelerating access to biomedical evidence
Tweet Today Elsevier publicly withdrew their support for the misbegotten Research Works Act (RWA), and they threw a few bones to the mathematicians that started the cost of knowledge petition (currently up to 7518 signatures, 1397 mathematicians, 0nly 471 from medicine, 1115 from biology) in the form of opening the archives of 14 core mathematics [...]
Tue, February 28 2012 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet I was looking at the web site for one of the newer biomedical open access publishers, e-Century Publishing Corporation, and I noticed this statement: By submitting a manuscript to AJCR, all authors agree that all copyrights of all materials included in the submitted manuscript will be exclusively transferred to the publisher – e-Century Publishing [...]
Sun, February 26 2012 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet Law School Library leads open access By Daniel Sisgoreo The Law School Library added roughly 3,000 faculty-published scholarly articles from legal journals to an open access database on its website over the past year. ============================ Freeing Knowledge By Kelsey Geiser The intellectual inquiry occurring each day at Stanford prompts the question of how research [...]
Wed, February 22 2012 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet I know how this appears to be an oxymoron. Can research not published yet be considered for open access, a term associated with a form of publishing? Read on….. It’s really a taxpayer access issue. Imagine you paid for something and were still waiting more than 30 months to receive it? 50 months? [...]
Sun, February 19 2012 » Uncategorized » 2 Comments
Tweet Many readers know about Elsevier’s SCIRUS portal as a place to go fishing for grey (gray) literature. Grey literature is typically government studies and reports, academic theses and conference proceedings, and publications from businesses and organizations that are primarily not in the publishing business and not seeking to earn publishing income. While there is [...]
Thu, February 16 2012 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet “Of particular note, many researchers still are not aware of the available OA resources in their field, as they likely remain focused on the publications they “grew up with” during their own education. With the current generation of new scientists, it will then be up to the OA publishers to bring their journals to [...]
Sun, February 12 2012 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet Have you received an email invitation for fast-track “open access” publishing from Noto-are? At least two of my colleagues at work and I received the following message: You know that old saying: If it sounds too good to be true? If you visit Noto-are‘s website, there is not much to see of the publishing [...]
Fri, February 10 2012 » Uncategorized » 2 Comments
Tweet As the Cost of Knowledge Elsevier boycott petition crashed through the 4500 total this afternoon and continues to add signatories (another 50 six hours later), it seems there are many former Elsevier authors, reviewers, and editors that might be looking for a prominent role in a credible open access competitor. What kind of protesters [...]
Wed, February 8 2012 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet I was looking around YouTube for student perspectives on open access, and I found a student describing her work with a medical school student journal, the University of British Columbia Medical Journal (UBCMJ) UBCMJ has a tag line, “By Students, For the World.” If you take a look at their copyright and consent form (PDF), [...]
Fri, February 3 2012 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet “When World War I finally ended, France vowed never again to let Germany, the so-called “beast that sleeps on the other side of the Rhine,” violate its territory. French politicians and generals conceived the Maginot Line, a network of forts and blockhouses, as an obstacle to any future invasion. Although it has become notorious [...]
Wed, February 1 2012 » Uncategorized » 1 Comment
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