Accelerating access to biomedical evidence
Tweet Raoul Kamadjeu is a physician, co-founder of the Pan African Medical Journal. He is driven in all his projects by a simple motto: “Start small, but think big..!” He received his doctorate in Medicine in Cameroon and completed his MPH in Belgium (ULB). He has experienced a broad spectrum of public health practice, from [...]
Sun, August 21 2011 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet In my last blog post I promised to conjure up a way to compare the quality of the collective editors of a biomedical open access journal. Here is my recipe, a modest proposal for rating the editing team of a biomedical open access journal. I am tentatively calling this the OAER (Open Access Editorial Rating) Score. [...]
Tue, February 15 2011 » Uncategorized » 6 Comments
Tweet Last November, the publisher BioMed Central (BMC) sponsored Open Access Africa at Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya. BMC happens to be a wholly-owned subsidiary of Springer Science+Business Media, acquired in the fall of 2008. I mention this because there are substantial costs involved in gathering the attendees of Open Access Africa, and I imagine this event [...]
Sat, February 5 2011 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet Not so long ago, in October 2008, Springer Science+Business Media acquired the BioMed Central Group (BMC) and its 180 open access journals (now up to 208). BMC continues to operate as a wholly owned subsidiary within Springer’s Science+Business Media and do some interesting things. Recently we have heard about the launch of a new [...]
Wed, January 19 2011 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet BioMed Central has drafted a position statement on data sharing, open data and licensing, and they have invited the wider scientific community to join the discussion to craft an explicit open data licensing policy. BMC acknowledges the Panton Principles for open data in science, adding the caveat that the scientific community ensure researchers still receive appropriate [...]
Fri, September 10 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet I noticed in a tweet of a Research Information posting about Elsevier’s new peer-review experiment for Chemical Physics Letters called PeerChoice. On the scale of news, PeerChoice is a murmur. Reviewers for one journal will now have the freedom to choose which articles they would like to review, hopefully matching their expertise and interest, [...]
Sat, July 3 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet Do you dream of ontologies, taxonomies, terminologies, controlled vocabularies, annotated data, knowledge and service repositories, literature, or reasoning systems and their use in data and knowledge integration, mining, modelling, interpretation and exploitation in and for biomedical research? Then I have a new open access journal for you. The Journal of Biomedical Semantics has just launched [...]
Thu, April 1 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet Quite a buzz broke out in the medical librarian community that subscribes to the MEDLIB-L mailing list when it was observed that Amy Bishop Ph.D., the University of Alabama in Huntsville researcher being held for murder and attempted murder of her former faculty colleagues, had co-authored a research article in the International Journal of [...]
Mon, March 1 2010 » Uncategorized » 2 Comments
Tweet The Access to Research Initiative (HINARI), introduced by the United Nations’ Secretary General Kofi Annan at the UN Millennium Summit in the year 2000, continues to provide free or very low cost online access to major biomedical literature to not-for-profit institutions in developing countries. Initially six international publishing companies responded to Annan’s call to [...]
Tue, February 9 2010 » Uncategorized » 1 Comment
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