Accelerating access to biomedical evidence
On June 4th the University of California Library System issued a very public complaint about Nature Publishing Group‘s proposed triple-digit increase in institutional subscription costs, coupled with a threat of author and editorial boycott by faculty. On June 24th, David Carlson, the Dean of Library Affairs at Southern Illinois University(SIU), Carbondale, and Associate Dean Connie [...]
Tue, July 13 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Joining the Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry as a fully funded, foundation supported open access journal, the Beilstein-Institut, a non-profit foundation located in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, has just formally announced the launch of the Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology. The Editor-in-Chief is Professor Thomas Schimmel, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. The Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology publishes [...]
Tue, June 1 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
An objective summary of EBSCO journal subscription price records for academic medical journals (2005-2009 Journal Price History) shows an average 40% increase for the past five years. Last year, the Medical Library community issued a Statement on the Global Economic Crisis and its Impact on Health Sciences Library Collections which called to both publisher and public attention [...]
Wed, February 3 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
One model of Gold OA is a direct solicitation to a potential author that a one time up front fee will insure open electronic access to their accepted research article. Wiley Interscience, a successful publisher of journals and related biomedical content, created a recent “experimental” program for more than 280 Wiley-Blackwell journals called OnlineOpen. Details that [...]
Sat, January 9 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
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