Accelerating access to biomedical evidence
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
Tweet Once again, I used the SCImago Journal Rank for the medicine category Nephrology in 2011 (also requiring that each journal had to exist for three years and have at least 100 articles over the three years) to see how many of the top-10 journals had an open access option, typically an extra author article [...]
Mon, January 30 2012 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet It is easy to see that a greater self-reliance must work a revolution in all the offices and relations of men; in their religion; in their education; in their pursuits; their modes of living; their association; in their property; in their speculative views. Ralph Waldo Emerson- Self-Reliance (1841) Obscured in all the [...]
Thu, January 26 2012 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet Kurt Elling playing “Steppin’ Out” (Joe Jackson) at the New Morning in Paris on May 26, 2011. “We so tired of all the darkness in our lives With no more angry words to say can come alive Get into a car and drive to the other side” You may not learn anything new in [...]
Mon, January 23 2012 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet The SCImago Journal & Country Rank allowed me to drill down into 2011 citation data for Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Here are the top 10 cited journals in 2011: Here is a description of how these journals offer or encourage open access (or not). 2011 Public Health Journal Openness JOURNAL TITLE PUBLISHER [...]
Fri, January 20 2012 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet I was looking at the SCImago 2011 journal ranking for Obstetrics and Gynecology and noted that the top six journals were either open access or had an open access option for authors. Of course, in position 7, is a notable non-open access journal , Obstetrics and Gynecology, that does not have an open access [...]
Wed, January 18 2012 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet The Medical library Association issued an Action Alert on January 12th, asking their membership to contact House Representatives and urge them to oppose H.R. 3699, The Research Works Act. MLA suggested using the talking points developed by the Alliance for Taxpayer Access: The bill would prohibit federal agencies from conditioning their grant funding to [...]
Sat, January 14 2012 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet There are actually observers and players in scholarly communication that think the 100 or so open access blogs out there are merely a bunch of shrill malcontents bent on breaking up the marriage of convenience between overburdened faculty and experienced publishers that have historical precedent to prosper and profit from selling it right back to the institutional libraries of [...]
Thu, January 12 2012 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet I completely missed the first release of opacmo: the open access mortar. The first release of this PubMed Central text-mining tool took place at the end of July 2011, when I was gearing up to teach my August-December library school class by learning another course management system (DesireToLearn), as well as preparing the details [...]
Mon, January 9 2012 » Uncategorized » No Comments
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