Accelerating access to biomedical evidence
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 Librarians play an effective role in educating their faculty and researchers about the opportunities and benefits of open access biomedical literature and the place of open access in scholarly publishing. Hopefully, they also pick up on the predatory trend as well and inoculate their researchers who are desperate to publish. Medical librarians gather annually for a [...]
Tue, May 10 2011 » 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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