Accelerating access to biomedical evidence
Tweet On April 20th 2012 NIH Director Francis Collins issued clarification and support for the eventual public release of revised H5N1 journal manuscripts by Dr. Ron Fouchier and Dr. Yoshihiro Kawaoka: After careful deliberation, the NSABB unanimously recommended the revised manuscript by Dr. Yoshihiro Kawaoka be communicated in full. The NSABB also recommended, in a [...]
Sat, April 21 2012 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet I completely missed the first release of opacmo: the open access mortar. The first release of this PubMed Central text-mining tool took place at the end of July 2011, when I was gearing up to teach my August-December library school class by learning another course management system (DesireToLearn), as well as preparing the details [...]
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Mon, October 24 2011 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet Having looked a general medicine journals recently and being less than impressed with some of the most famous journals and their benign stance (absolute authors’ responsibility for PMC archiving) about serving tax payer access interest, I thought to take a similar look at another specialty. Emergency medicine occupies an important role in every hospital [...]
Mon, September 5 2011 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet It seems to be provocative that I claim some journals promote a culture of support for NIH open access author mandates and some don’t. Let’s look at a peer group of well-regarded and frequently cited journals familiar to many, the Medicine (miscellaneous) category, using Scimago: Here’s my chart of the top 10 for the [...]
Thu, August 25 2011 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet In searching PMC recently, I was finding significant numbers of articles deposited from very notable journals, the outcome of results from NIH funded research. What proportion of annual research articles from any one journal end up on PMC? Because the NIH Open Access Policy gives authors at least 12 months to comply and deposit, [...]
Thu, August 18 2011 » Uncategorized » 4 Comments
Tweet No, this is not a new word game. There is a flow of ideas, starting with a publisher’s genuine attempt to connect scientists to science educators. I saw the tweeting about Scientific American and the Nature Publishing Group starting an initiative called “1,000 Scientists in 1,000 Days” to try to introduce scientists to science [...]
Mon, August 8 2011 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet I think those that appreciated my original post on NCBI images want to know how to find the images, now that NCBI images has disappeared as a separate database. The National Library of Medicine (NLM) actually updated the original October 22, 2010 Technical Bulletin announcement article with an editor’s note on July 22nd: [Editor’s [...]
Thu, August 4 2011 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet I saw a question from a friend on the Medlib-l medical librarians discussion list asking that very large and empathetic forum what they thought of the open access publisher Hindawi. I have blogged about Hindawi before. I have them on my link list of open access publishers. But to try to answer the most [...]
Sat, July 16 2011 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet Selection for MEDLIne indexing is a subjective acknowledgment of quality. Not all journals found in PubMed or Pubmed Central are indexed in MEDLINE. A distinctive feature of MEDLINE is that the records are indexed with NLM Medical Subject Headings (MeSH®), and articles from MEDLINE journals are more discoverable by loyal users of the MEDLINE [...]
Thu, May 5 2011 » Uncategorized » No Comments
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