Accelerating access to biomedical evidence
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 Many of you know that my nuclear family is a bi-cultural unification of Japanese and U.S. humanity, culture and interests, as well as a weaving of both academic and business professions and Buddhist values. So there was some amount of affirmation I felt on seeing a tweet and link about ”hita-hita — Institutional OA Advocacy [...]
Tue, March 1 2011 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet I kept looking at the home page for the Ranking Web of World Repositories, maintained by the Cybermetrics Lab (CSIC), with both admiration and confusion. Repositories are the backbone of the green open access movement, and here were comparative statistics for institutional efforts all over the world. There is even a banner across the [...]
Sat, January 22 2011 » Uncategorized » 3 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
Tweet [I have received the comment below from Stevan that pale or not, Elsevier is fully green. I stand corrected. ] Green open access refers to self-archiving pre-prints and post-prints of research articles, essentially freeing research results from the closed silo of subscription access. Here is Stevan Harnad’s graphic depiction of maximized research access and impact through [...]
Thu, January 13 2011 » Uncategorized » 1 Comment
Tweet Nature Publishing, still smarting from last year’s rejection of institutional price increases from a couple of academic library systems, has apparently studied the recent success of PLoS ONE ( as an interdisciplinary science journal, PLoSONE instantly ranked in the 2009 top 10 Biology ISI impact factor journals after two previous years of data) and launched [...]
Fri, January 7 2011 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet The Ecological Society of America (ESA), a well-established organization with a history of embracing every phase of the relation of organisms to their environmental condition, has launched its current global membership of over over 10,000 into the era of open access with the launch of Ecosphere. What makes this launch really interesting to me [...]
Wed, December 29 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet Open Access to Refereed Research Publications and Open Access to Research Data: A Crucial Strategic Distinction Stevan Harnad Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Sciences Université du Québec à Montreal & School of Electronics and Computer Science University of Southampton
Tue, November 30 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet I just added Digital.CSIC, the Institutional Repository of the Spanish National Research Council, to this blog’s link blogroll, as they just reached the admirable accomplishment of hosting 25,000 items September 16, 2010. At the 2010 IFLA Conference, a poster session was also presented on this repository. Some facts from the poster include: • Digital.CSIC is [...]
Fri, September 24 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet For those of us that monitor twitter™ space with a tool like tweetdeck™, the availability of a new archived pre-print like Alma Swan and Martin Hall’s Why Open Access can change science in the developing world in less than 48 hours old in the repository, and already more than 30 readers have discovered it. This [...]
Wed, September 15 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
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