Accelerating access to biomedical evidence
Tweet On March 29, 2012, at 9:30am, the US House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight held a public hearing to examine Public Access and Scholarly Publication Interests. Two pieces of legislation provoked this hearing. In early February House Representatives Mike Doyle (D-PA), Kevin Yoder (R-KS), and Lacy Clay [...]
Tue, April 3 2012 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet I don’t have much to add when there are already very articulate opinions supporting the case for retracting or opposing the Research Works Act. If you care about this and are a U.S. constituent of a House Member, please let them know your opinion. Michael Eisen, Associate Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology, UC Berkeley [...]
Fri, January 6 2012 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet In searching PMC recently, I was finding significant numbers of articles deposited from very notable journals, the outcome of results from NIH funded research. What proportion of annual research articles from any one journal end up on PMC? Because the NIH Open Access Policy gives authors at least 12 months to comply and deposit, [...]
Thu, August 18 2011 » Uncategorized » 4 Comments
Tweet It was back to basics night for me, checking in on the rate of manuscript deposits. Here is today’s picture if the NIH Manuscript Submission System usage by month (chart represents the number of manuscripts received by NIHMS and approved for processing by the author/PI for a given month) and a link to their [...]
Thu, April 7 2011 » Uncategorized » 1 Comment
Tweet When I discovered someone identified as the Indispensable Man of Open Science , I also found out about Cameron Neylon’s and other scientists creating open notebook science (making the entire primary record of a research project publicly available online) and a website called Open Wetware(OWW). OWW is both an open science content site and [...]
Tue, March 22 2011 » Uncategorized » 1 Comment
Tweet I am a firm believer in quality peer review for open access biomedical journals. After all, these journals affect the health of individuals and communities all over the globe. But we are beyond the monopoly on quality health information, according to Harnad and others, that was characteristic of the pre-digital era when journals prided themselves on [...]
Fri, February 11 2011 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet The Big Think site brought this video to my attention. As this is a teaching blog, I think it is worth watching, if you are unfamiliar with this notion of who pays and what are the most sustainable models of open access. Panelists: Mike Rossner, Executive Director of the Rockefeller University Press; Ivy Anderson, [...]
Tue, August 31 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet Sometimes the soft firewall I try to keep between this blog and daily life at a top-tier academic medical center library just breaks down. One of my favorite scientist teachers down the hall turned to me when her favorite librarian wasn’t available. She was preparing a lecture for this fall’s new class of medical [...]
Tue, August 17 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet On July 29th, Allan Adler, Vice President of government and legal affairs at the Association of American Publishers (AAP), told the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform’s Information Policy, Census, and National Archives Subcommittee that FRPAA would seriously threaten the scholarly publishing industry: “Publishers strongly believe that American taxpayers are entitled to the research [...]
Fri, August 6 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., has decided to offer an open access option for publications like the Journal of Neurotrauma. Most, if not all Liebert journals offer authors of accepted articles the opportunity to post their work free online with immediate unrestricted open access for a $3,000 fee. Subsequent articles using the open access option will receive [...]
Fri, June 4 2010 » Uncategorized » 1 Comment
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