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
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 [...]
Tags: Alliance for Taxpayer Access, medical school, NEJM, NIH Public Access Policy, publishers, Yale University
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Tue, August 17 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
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
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
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