Accelerating access to biomedical evidence
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
Tweet That’s right. Medical geology. A friend and colleague at Yale, Professor H. Catherine W. Skinner, is the editor of one textbook title in this young field: Geology and Health: Closing the Gap. Like most credible, carefully edited textbooks, this hardcover book is for sale, but I went looking in the Directory of Open [...]
Sat, April 16 2011 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet I read with great interest Peter Suber’s account in the watershed events section of SPARC Open Access Newsletter, issue #155 of Elsevier’s first author fee-based (gold) open access publication, the International Journal of Case Surgery Reports (IJSCR). After all, I am the Library Liaison for Surgery at the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, and this might [...]
Sat, March 12 2011 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet I really don’t care if InTechWeb has published 340+ books, 25,000+ authors, +2.5 million downloaded papers, all of them open access. I also don’t care that there are 25,029 persons in Facebook that claim to like them. There are places in the world, during these hard economic times, that specialize in creating a virtual population or marketing [...]
Thu, March 10 2011 » Uncategorized » 2 Comments
Tweet The most significant scholarly re-focus on persistent, neglected illness in tropical areas was the support the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation provided to help launch in 2007 the open access journal PLos Neglected Tropical Diseases (PloSNTDS), now the leading Tropical Medicine journal in the Journal Citation Report (JCR) impact factor ranking. For 2009, PloSNTDS has an [...]
Tue, March 8 2011 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet It’s always nice to see an announcement of a new open access journal. BioMed Central (BMC) just launched Neural Systems & Circuits, under the editorial leadership of Dr. Peter Latham (h index 22), University College London, UK, and Dr. Venkatesh Murthy(h index 21), Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University. Both will both [...]
Tue, February 22 2011 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet There are at least five established subscription journals focusing on the science of sleep: Journal of Sleep Research, Sleep, Sleep and Biological Rhythms, Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, and Sleep Medicine Reviews. But as the rhythm of biomedical publishing switches toward open access, there are at least four established or new open access journals [...]
Sat, January 29 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 Many readers know I am a medical librarian, and many readers have met me at Medical Library Association (MLA) activities. Medical libraries are valued for making health information accessible, organized, and useful, and one prominent role for academic and hospital libraries is the collection management role: providing campus-wide institutional access that can tempt and often [...]
Sat, January 15 2011 » Uncategorized » No Comments
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