Accelerating access to biomedical evidence
Tweet Michael P. Taylor, one of the Sauropod Vertebra weekly image-posters that recently emerged as a commentator on scholarly communication from his academic vantage point, made a worthy attempt this week at telling readers of TheScientist about the dysfunctional system of academic publishing that continues to be idealized, resuscitated, and defended, albeit mostly by publishers and [...]
Tue, March 20 2012 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet The Medical library Association issued an Action Alert on January 12th, asking their membership to contact House Representatives and urge them to oppose H.R. 3699, The Research Works Act. MLA suggested using the talking points developed by the Alliance for Taxpayer Access: The bill would prohibit federal agencies from conditioning their grant funding to [...]
Sat, January 14 2012 » Uncategorized » No 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 Just in case some publisher thinks my well of ideas has dried up, I am actually teaching an online library science class that concludes in December, including reading and critiquing a large number of semester papers and final grading. I should be back to regular persistent blogging about open access and biomedicine by December [...]
Wed, November 17 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet When a library tweets about open access funding, I sit up and listen. The University of Tennessee, Knoxville Office of Research and University Libraries have renewed a fund of $20,000 for FY 2009-2010 to support publishing in open access journals. Credit must be given to the Library Scholarly Communication unit, which guides digital library [...]
Fri, July 9 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet From the transcript of the 2007 Medical Library Association awards luncheon presentation on May 21, 2007 ( I added the hypertext links and emphasis): “The Thomson Scientific/Frank Bradway Rogers Information Advancement Award is sponsored by Thomson Scientific and recognizes outstanding contributions in the application of technology to the delivery of health sciences information, to [...]
Wed, May 12 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet Peter Brantley in Madrid, April 2010: the future of open access, publishing, libraries.
Wed, April 14 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
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 [...]
Wed, February 3 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
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