Accelerating access to biomedical evidence
Tweet The mission statement of the AACR and its Foundation for the Prevention and Cure of Cancer lays out a compelling rationale for individual and corporate support of their efforts: Prevent and cure cancer through research, education, communication and collaboration Foster cancer research and related biomedical science Accelerate the dissemination of new research findings among scientists [...]
Tue, May 4 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet After reading this message, I asked Margo if I could post it, and she said go for it. Dear Colleagues: The day H.R. 5037 (Federal Research Public Access Act of 2010 – FRPAA) was introduced, I happened to be sending an open access article to a headache support group. The article was the result [...]
Thu, April 29 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet I was reading a recent interesting article, A Toolkit For E Health Partnerships In Low-Income Nations, in a non-open access journal, Health Affairs, expecting to find some mention of open access biomedical publishing playing some sort of major or minor role in this toolkit. I also knew that the publisher of this journal was originally on board and [...]
Sun, February 21 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet The Access to Research Initiative (HINARI), introduced by the United Nations’ Secretary General Kofi Annan at the UN Millennium Summit in the year 2000, continues to provide free or very low cost online access to major biomedical literature to not-for-profit institutions in developing countries. Initially six international publishing companies responded to Annan’s call to [...]
Tue, February 9 2010 » Uncategorized » 1 Comment
Tweet Well, I was quite excited about today’s announcement of the Emergency Access Initiative (EAI), a timely partnership of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) , the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NNLM), and the Professional & Scholarly Publishing division of the Association of American Publishers (AAP) and other publishers. Then I began to [...]
Tue, January 26 2010 » Uncategorized » 1 Comment
Tweet Spin is everything. The result of the Scholarly Publishing Roundtable of key stakeholders charged on October 29th, 2009, by the U.S. House of Representatives Science and Technology Committee in collaboration with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), was released on January 12th, 2010, after reaching enough consensus to suggest something [...]
Tue, January 19 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet The Washington DC Principles for Free Access to Science ( aka DC Principles) was launched in 2004 as a unified not-for-profit scientific publishing statement, right around the same time as the birth of the Alliance for Taxpayer Access. The audience for this face-off was and continues to be scholarly societies with well-established reputations and [...]
Tue, January 12 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
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