Accelerating access to biomedical evidence
Tweet It is easy to see that a greater self-reliance must work a revolution in all the offices and relations of men; in their religion; in their education; in their pursuits; their modes of living; their association; in their property; in their speculative views. Ralph Waldo Emerson- Self-Reliance (1841) Obscured in all the [...]
Thu, January 26 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 Routledge, the humanities and social sciences imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, announced back at the beginning of November the launch of a green open access experiment with the Library & Information Science (LIS) research community: a two-year pilot Author Rights Initiative. To quote the explanation and rationale from the press release: “This [...]
Fri, December 16 2011 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet There are some strange summer mornings in the country, when he who is but a sojourner from the city shall early walk forth into the fields, and be wonder-smitten with the trance-like aspect of the green and golden world. Not a flower stirs; the trees forget to wave; the grass itself seems to have [...]
Fri, August 26 2011 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet And the preprint says, ahhh…Miles Davis…. Blue in Green. Stevan Harnad has issued a polite request to SHERPA/RoMEO to update their color scheme. Stevan’s logic speaks for itself. Here he is on another occasion, making important points about green open access:
Mon, August 15 2011 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet Stevan Harnad alerted me earlier this year that Elsevier is a fully green open access publisher. Authors can archive pre-print or post-print copies (the one exception for Elsevier, according to SHERPA/RoMEO, is The Lancet: only a word-processed version of a peer-reviewed, accepted, and edited article from The Lancet can be placed on a personal [...]
Sun, August 14 2011 » Uncategorized » 3 Comments
Tweet The word is getting around from places like Library Journal that the recently formed Coalition of Open Access Policy Institutions (COAPI) will meet in person for the first time at a pre-conference meeting at the Berlin 9 Open Access Conference in Washington, DC, in early November 2011. Just as SPARC fostered a vibrant [...]
Thu, August 11 2011 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet I was looking at the announcement of Palgrave Macmillan open access options and started to build a table to compare publisher post-print deposit rules: Post-Print Green Open Access Policies June 21st, 2011 Publisher Policy Source of Documentation Palgrave Macmillan Journals Upload to institutional repositories; public availability of post-print is delayed until 18 months after [...]
Thu, June 23 2011 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet I was checking out The Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) repository and saw the announcement that Open Access Fellows are Harvard students (both undergraduate and graduate) who help faculty to make deposits into DASH, answer questions about the Open Access Policies, and help depositors complete metadata descriptions of items being placed in the repository. Great [...]
Sat, June 4 2011 » Uncategorized » No 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
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