Accelerating access to biomedical evidence
Tweet OASIS, the Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook, was launched in 2009 with seed funding provided by the Information Program of the Open Society Institute and the personal efforts of two open access advocates, Alma Swan and Leslie Chan. Their efforts are supported by an international steering committee/advisory board of very recognizable open access advocates. OASIS combines the traditional [...]
Sun, July 11 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet eIFL.net is an international not-for-profit organization building partnerships with libraries around the world to enable sustainable access to high quality digital information for people in developing and transition countries. Like SPARC in the U.S., eIFL.net was originallystarted to address the serials pricing crisis in academic and research libraries in Central and Eastern Europe. eIFL.net [...]
Mon, July 5 2010 » Uncategorized » 1 Comment
Tweet The American Society for Microbiology(ASM) is one of the most distinguished and successful biomedical science publishers. ASM is already a full participant in PubMed Central for all of its non-open journals, offering free access at six months after publication, in effect already complying with the six month intent of the FRPAA legislative proposal. Now [...]
Sun, May 16 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet Siobhan O’Leary, writing in the Publishing Perspectives blog, draws our attention in English to a new German initiative posted in boersenblatt.net. Berlin Academic (Berlin Verlag). I started to dig around the web and found a presentation by Colin Steele which described the Bloomsbury Publishing partnership with Berlin Verlag that aims to establish a new [...]
Tue, March 9 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
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