Accelerating access to biomedical evidence
Tweet Once again, I used the SCImago Journal Rank for the medicine category Nephrology in 2011 (also requiring that each journal had to exist for three years and have at least 100 articles over the three years) to see how many of the top-10 journals had an open access option, typically an extra author article [...]
Mon, January 30 2012 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet There are actually observers and players in scholarly communication that think the 100 or so open access blogs out there are merely a bunch of shrill malcontents bent on breaking up the marriage of convenience between overburdened faculty and experienced publishers that have historical precedent to prosper and profit from selling it right back to the institutional libraries of [...]
Thu, January 12 2012 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet One of my most popular posts, the one on Amy Bishop’s open access publishing, made use of the google cache to cite evidence that the publisher had removed from their web site. Similarly, the Internet Archive, AKA the wayback machine,by maintaining a history of periodically sampling websites, allows librarians to do things such as….find [...]
Fri, July 29 2011 » Uncategorized » 2 Comments
Tweet Open Research Computation is a new open access journal launched on the BioMed Central (BMC) platform. Here’s the description of what to expect: So who is the competition for this new journal? Computer Physics Communications, an Elsevier published journal, does have an open access option. Software Quality Journal, from Springer, will accept articles with [...]
Thu, July 21 2011 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet I do occasionally look at the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) web site, if only to compare their tag-line Shaping the Future of Learned and Professional Publishing with their behavior. For instance, their April 2011 report Heading for the open road: costs and benefits of transitions in scholarly communications acknowledged my [...]
Wed, July 13 2011 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet I forgot to mention in my last post that the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) subscription now provides access to 12 years of data (1999-2010). I really had not noticed this generosity. Let’s look at another subject discipline to assess whether the top 10 2010 impact factor rankings offer substantial immediate open access options. Integrative [...]
Wed, July 6 2011 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet Now that most academic libraries are announcing the availability of the 2010 edition of Journal Citation Reports(JCR), it is also time to try to find some trends in terms of open access. I decided to check the new list of top-10 impact factor (IF) journals in a notable subject discipline, Obstetrics and Gynecology (OB/GYN). [...]
Mon, July 4 2011 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet I want to compliment the analysis done by Declan Butler in the Nature news blog about the open access shot heard round the world. I’m referring to the announcement that three top-shelf life science foundations– the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), the Wellcome Trust (WT), and the Max Planck Society (MPS)– are intending to [...]
Wed, June 29 2011 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet I was looking at the website for the open access publisher PAGEPress and noticed their journals offered a very competitively priced author processing fee. The price for publication of each article in our journal is EUR 350,00. In attempting to understand how their implementation of open access publishing could be done so reasonably, I [...]
Sat, June 11 2011 » Uncategorized » 2 Comments
Tweet The press release from the Company of Biologists cites what I and others call the PLoS One (PLoS1) effect: By focusing on the timely publication of sound research rather than that with perceived impact or importance, BIOLOGY OPEN is designed to facilitate dialogue and build a valuable body of work supporting the efforts of the [...]
Sat, April 30 2011 » Uncategorized » 1 Comment
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