Accelerating access to biomedical evidence
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
From the ARL SPARC press release: Washington, DC – The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Information Policy, the Census and National Archives announced it will hold a hearing on the issue of public access to federally funded research on Thursday, July 29. The hearing will provide an opportunity [...]
Tue, July 20 2010 » Uncategorized » 4 Comments
The mission statement of the AACR and its Foundation for the Prevention and Cure of Cancer lays out a compelling rationale for individual and corporate support of their efforts: Prevent and cure cancer through research, education, communication and collaboration Foster cancer research and related biomedical science Accelerate the dissemination of new research findings among scientists and [...]
Tue, May 4 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
I was reading a recent interesting article, A Toolkit For E Health Partnerships In Low-Income Nations, in a non-open access journal, Health Affairs, expecting to find some mention of open access biomedical publishing playing some sort of major or minor role in this toolkit. I also knew that the publisher of this journal was originally on board and publicly [...]
Sun, February 21 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
The Washington DC Principles for Free Access to Science ( aka DC Principles) was launched in 2004 as a unified not-for-profit scientific publishing statement, right around the same time as the birth of the Alliance for Taxpayer Access. The audience for this face-off was and continues to be scholarly societies with well-established reputations and publishing [...]
Tue, January 12 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
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