Accelerating access to biomedical evidence
The Big Think site brought this video to my attention. As this is a teaching blog, I think it is worth watching, if you are unfamiliar with this notion of who pays and what are the most sustainable models of open access. Panelists: Mike Rossner, Executive Director of the Rockefeller University Press; Ivy Anderson, Director [...]
Tue, August 31 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
At first this blog from iMedPub or oMedPub (take your pick, they seem to be used interchangeably) seemed attractive, at first glance, and also seemed to be highlighting promising articles from a new open access publisher. My skepticism began to grow as I conducted an excruciating search for a real person behind “a social publishing house which has [...]
Sun, August 15 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
The Journal of Clinical Oncology (JCO), published by the American Society of Clinical Oncology(ASCO), is considered a top shelf medical journal, ranked 4th for impact in oncology by the current Journal Citation Reports. JCO follows the historical standard of requiring assignment of author’s copyright to the publisher upon article acceptance. Authors submit manuscripts with the [...]
Wed, July 28 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Back in May I highlighted Jeffrey Beal’s article in the Charleston Advisor open access archive (the OA archive is open, unlike the rest of the journal) , an entertaining exposé about several open access publisher websites that don’t describe or respond to questions about peer review or anything else…just register as an author, insert your [...]
Fri, July 16 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
When a library tweets about open access funding, I sit up and listen. The University of Tennessee, Knoxville Office of Research and University Libraries have renewed a fund of $20,000 for FY 2009-2010 to support publishing in open access journals. Credit must be given to the Library Scholarly Communication unit, which guides digital library initiatives, [...]
Fri, July 9 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., has decided to offer an open access option for publications like the Journal of Neurotrauma. Most, if not all Liebert journals offer authors of accepted articles the opportunity to post their work free online with immediate unrestricted open access for a $3,000 fee. Subsequent articles using the open access option will receive a [...]
Fri, June 4 2010 » Uncategorized » 1 Comment
The University of North Texas at Denton hosted an Open Access Symposium on May 18, 2010, part of their ongoing initiative to establish a campus open access policy. UNT would be the first public university in Texas, and only the second public university in the U.S., after the University of Kansas, to formalize a requirement for [...]
Fri, May 28 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Remember a couple of years ago when there were smart and careful investors that nevertheless were tempted by the promise of easy money and a facade of offices and statements that masked a scheme that only truly rewarded the perpetrator? Now we have a term for a possible confidence game being played on scientists seeking a [...]
Tue, May 11 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
The Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) is a young organization just about to hold their 2nd annual meeting on August 22-24 in Prague, the capital city of the Czech Republic. The have already assembled a large membership roster of international publishing organizations, scholarly society publishers, and independent open access journals. There is also [...]
Fri, April 9 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
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 on [...]
Thu, April 1 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
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