Accelerating access to biomedical evidence
Tweet The SCImago Journal & Country Rank allowed me to drill down into 2011 citation data for Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Here are the top 10 cited journals in 2011: Here is a description of how these journals offer or encourage open access (or not). 2011 Public Health Journal Openness JOURNAL TITLE PUBLISHER [...]
Fri, January 20 2012 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet The Open Knowledge Foundation has been on a tear, sponsoring first the Big Clean last March, then getting the word out about their annual Open Knowledge Conference on June 30th and July 1st. Big Clean is a relatively young international movement empowering citizens across borders to access, clean, organise & re-use local government data. [...]
Thu, June 16 2011 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet You can search the journal database maintained by the online Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) for countries where open access journals are published, which will provide a comparative statistical barometer of open access activity. As of today, here is an interesting comparison of locally published open access: June 13th 2011 DOAJ Search Result [...]
Tue, June 14 2011 » Uncategorized » No Comments
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 [...]
Sat, June 4 2011 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet This is the text of a press release that went out through my Regional Medical Library network at 4:00pm EST. Although the subscriptions are not officially open access, all the meaningful medlineplus pages are: The National Library of Medicine announces the activation of the Emergency Access Initiative in support of medical efforts in Japan [...]
Tue, March 15 2011 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet The most significant scholarly re-focus on persistent, neglected illness in tropical areas was the support the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation provided to help launch in 2007 the open access journal PLos Neglected Tropical Diseases (PloSNTDS), now the leading Tropical Medicine journal in the Journal Citation Report (JCR) impact factor ranking. For 2009, PloSNTDS has an [...]
Tue, March 8 2011 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet The Mission to Learn blog featured a guest post by Dena White entitled: Top 10 Free Health & Medical Open Courseware Collections. One of the featured 10 is the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s OPENCOURSEWARE (OCW) project. I also discovered the OpenCourseWare Consortium (OCWC) which received funding support by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. [...]
Fri, March 4 2011 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet The American Journal of Public Health (AJPH), a subscription journal published by the American Public Health Association, is probably the best known journal for public health research. It also requires that authors comply with a set of ethical principles: Principles of the Ethical Practice of Public Health. Part of the “purpose of a policy [...]
Mon, February 21 2011 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet eIFL.net partners with libraries and library consortia in over 45 developing and transition countries in Africa, Asia and Europe, extending a range of programmes and initiatives that increase access to knowledge. eIFL’s core initiatives include: Access to Knowledge for Education, Learning and Research – ensuring resources for libraries, modern IT infrastructure and skilled staff, supporting [...]
Tue, September 28 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
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