Accelerating access to biomedical evidence
After doing a slow burn about a significant library science teaching article from the BMJ-owned Postgraduate Medical Journal and probably never getting it in PubMedCentral, I found my way back to the main page of BMJ and saw, I thought, something to credit as accellerating open access: “The BMJ (Impact Factor 13.66) provides open access to [...]
Wed, September 1 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
The Big Think site brought this video to my attention. As this is a teaching blog, I think it is worth watching, if you are unfamiliar with this notion of who pays and what are the most sustainable models of open access. Panelists: Mike Rossner, Executive Director of the Rockefeller University Press; Ivy Anderson, Director [...]
Tue, August 31 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
The 2nd annual Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing (COASP) is taking place this week, August 22-24, at the President Hotel, Prague, Czech Republic One of the most eagerly expected presentations was given on August 23rd, the First results of the SOAP Project (large PDF, be patient). There is also a SlideShare version of the presentation.
Thu, August 26 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Recently I was asked in a blog post comment whether taxpayer-sponsored research combined with paying an additional out-of-pocket open access fee to an OA publisher amounts to a double-burden on taxpayers. Good question. Here’s how I would reply. There is already funding support precedent for either: Using part of the original NIH grant for page [...]
Fri, August 20 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Sometimes the soft firewall I try to keep between this blog and daily life at a top-tier academic medical center library just breaks down. One of my favorite scientist teachers down the hall turned to me when her favorite librarian wasn’t available. She was preparing a lecture for this fall’s new class of medical students [...]
Tue, August 17 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
At first this blog from iMedPub or oMedPub (take your pick, they seem to be used interchangeably) seemed attractive, at first glance, and also seemed to be highlighting promising articles from a new open access publisher. My skepticism began to grow as I conducted an excruciating search for a real person behind “a social publishing house which has [...]
Sun, August 15 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
On July 29th, Allan Adler, Vice President of government and legal affairs at the Association of American Publishers (AAP), told the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform’s Information Policy, Census, and National Archives Subcommittee that FRPAA would seriously threaten the scholarly publishing industry: “Publishers strongly believe that American taxpayers are entitled to the research they’ve [...]
Fri, August 13 2010 » Uncategorized » 1 Comment
I saw the announcement on resourceshelf.com about The University of Ottawa Press decision to launch a new open access collection of 36 UOP books will be available free to the online community in the University of Ottawa’s institutional repository, uO Research, including both French and English-language in-print titles in the arts, humanities and social sciences. Curious about the representation [...]
Sun, August 8 2010 » Uncategorized » 1 Comment
On July 29th, Allan Adler, Vice President of government and legal affairs at the Association of American Publishers (AAP), told the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform’s Information Policy, Census, and National Archives Subcommittee that FRPAA would seriously threaten the scholarly publishing industry: “Publishers strongly believe that American taxpayers are entitled to the research they’ve [...]
Fri, August 6 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Evidence 2010 will bring together international experts from the areas of education, EBM resource development, implementation, health economics and commissioning. Register now at the Early Bird rate and make savings. August 6th is the early-bird deadline. This 2 day conference will be aimed at: Commissioners of evidence-based services Those involved in assessing the cost effectiveness of [...]
Wed, August 4 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
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