Accelerating access to biomedical evidence
Tweet Why do we need historians of science and medicine? Historians tell stories, often commercially published books. I found a bit of open history tonight, almost 13 years old. More than a dozen years ago, 1999, there was no NIH Public Access Policy. PLoS was an idea being tossed around. BioMed Central had not launched. [...]
Tue, March 13 2012 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet Recent visitors to the BioMed Central (BMC) web site might notice the prominence that Chemistry Central has in the three-sisters navigational tabs: I have not had a chance to acquaint myself with this new open access publishing brand, with four new journals: Chemistry Central Journal Editors-in-Chief: R. Stephen Berry, University of Chicago, Jean-Claude [...]
Sat, March 10 2012 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet Three significant things happened in the last week or so: GOOD JQ Johnson, Director of Scholarly Communications & Instructional Support for the University of Oregon Libraries, took a crack at a simple mash up of SCImago Journal Rankings (SJRs) with open access journals that appear in the Directory of Open Access Journals to create a [...]
Tue, March 6 2012 » Uncategorized » 1 Comment
Tweet When did the idea of open science capture the imagination of researchers? A seminal moment in the history of open science occurred in 1982 with the creation of the public GenBank at Los Alamos National Laboratory(LANL). In 1992, functional management responsibility for the exponentially growing library of genetic sequences was transferred to the newly [...]
Sun, March 4 2012 » Uncategorized » No Comments
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
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