Accelerating access to biomedical evidence
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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Tue, April 20 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet If you are fortunate enough to have institutional or corporate access to Journal Citation Reports® (JCR), it is possible find Open Access journals analyzed by a variety of status criteria. For instance, start out at the opening search page and select “View a group of journals by Publisher”: After displaying the list of publishers, [...]
Tue, March 23 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet I tuned into the American Public Media radio show MarketPlace© the other night and listened to a well-formed discussion of the difficulties of defining health care costs . As the year-long debate on health care has evolved, discussion of choices based on cost have evaporated. In the broadcast, there is a real patient needing [...]
Thu, March 18 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet Back in December Peter Suber mentioned on his blog that Columbia University has joined leading institutions such as Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, MIT, and UC Berkeley in a commitment to a Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity. The compact commits signatories to the timely establishment of mechanisms for underwriting reasonable publication fees for open access journal articles authored by researchers [...]
Sun, March 7 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 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 Back in September 2009, The Public Library of Science (PLoS), already the publisher of the #1 ISI impact factor journal for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, announced that that all seven PLoS journals would provide online usage data for published articles. With this addition, the suite of metrics on PLoS articles now includes measures of: [...]
Sun, January 17 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
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