Accelerating access to biomedical evidence
Tweet My blogging has been curtailed to maximize my personal time to prepare for the Medical Library Association annual meeting in May and my visit to the Republican Scientific Medical Library in mid-June to teach my Armenian librarian colleagues about identifying and applying health information research techniques to improve Armenian health care outcomes. I am [...]
Tue, May 8 2012 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet On April 20th 2012 NIH Director Francis Collins issued clarification and support for the eventual public release of revised H5N1 journal manuscripts by Dr. Ron Fouchier and Dr. Yoshihiro Kawaoka: After careful deliberation, the NSABB unanimously recommended the revised manuscript by Dr. Yoshihiro Kawaoka be communicated in full. The NSABB also recommended, in a [...]
Sat, April 21 2012 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet Video has become the medium of choice for education and entertainment, young and old. Take those staggering youtube statistics: 60 hours of video are uploaded every minute, or one hour of video is uploaded to YouTube every second Over 4 billion videos are viewed a day Over 800 million unique users visit YouTube each [...]
Mon, April 16 2012 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet There are more than 50 questionable open access publishers on Jeffrey Beall’s List of Predatory Open-Access Publishers. Some questionable journals publish independently of any publisher. How has this disease spread? Here are my thoughts and evidence: Plug-and-play content management such as Open Journal Systems (OJS) provides a no-cost easy way to set up a [...]
Thu, April 12 2012 » Uncategorized » 3 Comments
Tweet Today I met the Chief Medical Information Officer for Yale-New Haven Hospital, Allen L. Hsiao MD, who is also an Assistant Professor for the Yale School of Medicine specializing in Pediatric Emergency Medicine. Dr. Hsiao was was talking to the Yale Medical Library staff about the implementation of an electronic medical record (EMR) system [...]
Tue, April 10 2012 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet I saw an account of three major publishers’ copyright infringement law suit filed against open education publisher Boundless Learning (BL) in the April 5th Chronicle of Higher Education blog. If you launching an open education startup, viral word-of-mouth marketing is the inexpensive alternative to advertising. But then you attract venture capital funding and a [...]
Fri, April 6 2012 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet On March 29, 2012, at 9:30am, the US House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight held a public hearing to examine Public Access and Scholarly Publication Interests. Two pieces of legislation provoked this hearing. In early February House Representatives Mike Doyle (D-PA), Kevin Yoder (R-KS), and Lacy Clay [...]
Tue, April 3 2012 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet This statement is a direct quotation from a 2006 article “Scientific Journals are ‘faith based’: is there science behind Peer review?” by a group of public health upstarts suggesting a lack of scientific method in the peer review process could be remedied by alternative methods of scholarly quality control and new forms of data-driven [...]
Sat, March 31 2012 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet Here are the top 10 clinical genetics journals for 2011, according to SCImago Journal Rank for today, limited to journals with at least 100 articles over the last three years: Nature Genetics is the highest ranked journal by a wide margin. In a reputation strong position, Nature Publishing Group (NPG) does not offer optional [...]
Sun, March 25 2012 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet Michael P. Taylor, one of the Sauropod Vertebra weekly image-posters that recently emerged as a commentator on scholarly communication from his academic vantage point, made a worthy attempt this week at telling readers of TheScientist about the dysfunctional system of academic publishing that continues to be idealized, resuscitated, and defended, albeit mostly by publishers and [...]
Tue, March 20 2012 » Uncategorized » No Comments
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