Accelerating access to biomedical evidence
Tweet I saw a question from a friend on the Medlib-l medical librarians discussion list asking that very large and empathetic forum what they thought of the open access publisher Hindawi. I have blogged about Hindawi before. I have them on my link list of open access publishers. But to try to answer the most [...]
Sat, July 16 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 Scirus, the Elsevier-produced web index targeting the retrieval of over 380 million science-related Web pages, has always been a credible free alternative to the imprecision and paid-advertising that comes with attempts at scientific retrieval with basic google. (of course, Google Scholar is where you could go for better peer-reviewed scientific access). It is important to recognize [...]
Sun, April 18 2010 » Uncategorized » 1 Comment
Tweet If you are fortunate enough to have institutional or corporate access to Journal Citation Reports® (JCR), it is possible find Open Access journals analyzed by a variety of status criteria. For instance, start out at the opening search page and select “View a group of journals by Publisher”: After displaying the list of publishers, [...]
Tue, March 23 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet Twitter is such a great resource for discovering what others discover. Someone in the twittersphere mentioned the open access publisher Hindawi, and after my assessment of Dove Press earlier this week, I just had to take a deeper look into yet another emerging open access publisher. So I put the website into the Wayback [...]
Thu, March 4 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
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