Accelerating access to biomedical evidence
Tweet I was checking out The Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) repository and saw the announcement that Open Access Fellows are Harvard students (both undergraduate and graduate) who help faculty to make deposits into DASH, answer questions about the Open Access Policies, and help depositors complete metadata descriptions of items being placed in the repository. Great [...]
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Tweet In the top 30 2009 Evolutionary Biology Journal Citation Reports(JCR) impact factor journals, we find only two titles from open access publishers: BMC Evolutionary Biology Evolutionary Bioinformatics However, I happened to look at the subject category Evolutionary Biology at the PLoS ONE site and found 1,784 articles published since December 2006. As of today, [...]
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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 [...]
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Tweet Nature Publishing, still smarting from last year’s rejection of institutional price increases from a couple of academic library systems, has apparently studied the recent success of PLoS ONE ( as an interdisciplinary science journal, PLoSONE instantly ranked in the 2009 top 10 Biology ISI impact factor journals after two previous years of data) and launched [...]
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Tweet Evidence 2010 will bring together international experts from the areas of education, EBM resource development, implementation, health economics and commissioning. Register now at the Early Bird rate and make savings. August 6th is the early-bird deadline. This 2 day conference will be aimed at: Commissioners of evidence-based services Those involved in assessing the cost effectiveness [...]
Wed, August 4 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet The Journal of Clinical Oncology (JCO), published by the American Society of Clinical Oncology(ASCO), is considered a top shelf medical journal, ranked 4th for impact in oncology by the current Journal Citation Reports. JCO follows the historical standard of requiring assignment of author’s copyright to the publisher upon article acceptance. Authors submit manuscripts with [...]
Wed, July 28 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet In a story line out of the post- Reagan excesses of substituting the private sector for governement activity, the Journal of the National Cancer Institute (JNCI), a highly respected research journal for a narrow, exclusive slice of taxpayers, is neither published nor sponsored by the National Cancer Institute(NCI). It participates in Pubmed Central archiving only at the bare [...]
Wed, June 23 2010 » Uncategorized » 2 Comments
Tweet The American Society for Microbiology(ASM) is one of the most distinguished and successful biomedical science publishers. ASM is already a full participant in PubMed Central for all of its non-open journals, offering free access at six months after publication, in effect already complying with the six month intent of the FRPAA legislative proposal. Now [...]
Sun, May 16 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet An article in zeropaid.com amplified the news about BioTorrents, a BitTorrent tracking and repository site created by researchers at the Genome Center of the University of California Davis, announced earlier in April in PLoS One (BioTorrents: A File Sharing Service for Scientific Data). If you are a denizen of digital bazaar known as BitTorrent, this latest development [...]
Wed, April 28 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
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