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Keep copyright or not? Which Bioscience/Biomedical Open Access Publishers insist on transfer of copyright?

Tweet I was looking at the web site for one of the newer biomedical open access publishers, e-Century Publishing Corporation, and I noticed this statement: By submitting a manuscript to AJCR, all authors agree that all copyrights of all materials included in the submitted manuscript will be exclusively transferred to the publisher – e-Century Publishing [...]

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Sun, February 26 2012 » Uncategorized » No Comments

NEJM hordes taxpayer images…Chi-Ching$, Chi-Ching$

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 [...]

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Tue, August 17 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Open Book Alliance- Peter Brantley on the road

Tweet Peter Brantley in Madrid, April 2010: the future of open access, publishing, libraries.

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Wed, April 14 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Open access publishers’ code of conduct attracts scrutiny

Tweet The Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) is a young organization just about to hold their 2nd annual meeting on August 22-24 in Prague, the capital city of the Czech Republic.  The have already assembled a  large membership roster of international publishing organizations, scholarly society publishers, and independent open access journals.   There is [...]

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Fri, April 9 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Open Access, Don Quixote, Sancho Panza

Tweet The Date: May 25th, 2004 The Place: Washington, DC The Event: Medical Library Association Annual Meeting The Moment: Business Meeting Pt II There can be no Sancho Panza without a Don Quixote,  or a Dulcinea.  I was sitting next to my Don,  Wayne Peay,  as a new editor of the first open access medical [...]

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Thu, January 7 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments