Accelerating access to biomedical evidence
Tweet It was back to basics night for me, checking in on the rate of manuscript deposits. Here is today’s picture if the NIH Manuscript Submission System usage by month (chart represents the number of manuscripts received by NIHMS and approved for processing by the author/PI for a given month) and a link to their [...]
Thu, April 7 2011 » Uncategorized » 1 Comment
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 [I have received the comment below from Stevan that pale or not, Elsevier is fully green. I stand corrected. ] Green open access refers to self-archiving pre-prints and post-prints of research articles, essentially freeing research results from the closed silo of subscription access. Here is Stevan Harnad’s graphic depiction of maximized research access and impact through [...]
Thu, January 13 2011 » Uncategorized » 1 Comment
Tweet After doing a slow burn about a significant library science teaching article from the BMJ-owned Postgraduate Medical Journal and probably never getting it in PubMedCentral, I found my way back to the main page of BMJ and saw, I thought, something to credit as accellerating open access: “The BMJ (Impact Factor 13.66) provides open access [...]
Wed, September 1 2010 » Uncategorized » 2 Comments
Tweet Recently I was asked in a blog post comment whether taxpayer-sponsored research combined with paying an additional out-of-pocket open access fee to an OA publisher amounts to a double-burden on taxpayers. Good question. Here’s how I would reply. There is already funding support precedent for either: Using part of the original NIH grant for [...]
Fri, August 20 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet I noticed in a tweet of a Research Information posting about Elsevier’s new peer-review experiment for Chemical Physics Letters called PeerChoice. On the scale of news, PeerChoice is a murmur. Reviewers for one journal will now have the freedom to choose which articles they would like to review, hopefully matching their expertise and interest, [...]
Sat, July 3 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
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 Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., has decided to offer an open access option for publications like the Journal of Neurotrauma. Most, if not all Liebert journals offer authors of accepted articles the opportunity to post their work free online with immediate unrestricted open access for a $3,000 fee. Subsequent articles using the open access option will receive [...]
Fri, June 4 2010 » Uncategorized » 1 Comment
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 The YouTube version of Dr. Lipman’s comments (below) is a sample, compared to his extended remarks that can be viewed at the Columbia University Scholarly Communication website. Have about 50 minutes available for this version. The YouTube version is a 10 minute highlight.
Wed, May 5 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
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