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Open Access and Medical Library Collections: a survey and consensus statement

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 [...]

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Sat, January 15 2011 » Uncategorized » No Comments

The next domino: SIU follows UC in opposing NPG subscription increases, urging open access alternatives

Tweet 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 [...]

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Tue, July 13 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

New Beilstein nanotechnology journal faces competition, offers incentive

Tweet 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 [...]

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Tue, June 1 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Journal Price Freeze in 2010…after a period of steady price increases

Tweet 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 [...]

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Wed, February 3 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

A Gold Open Access Experiment: Wiley Interscience

Tweet 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 [...]

Tags: Blackwell, copyright transfer, Gold OA, journal pricing, PubMed Central, UKPMC, Wiley Interscience

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Sat, January 9 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

• Speaking of Open Access

  Barbara Stebbins, Middle School Science Teacher

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