Accelerating access to biomedical evidence
Tweet Librarians play an effective role in educating their faculty and researchers about the opportunities and benefits of open access biomedical literature and the place of open access in scholarly publishing. Hopefully, they also pick up on the predatory trend as well and inoculate their researchers who are desperate to publish. Medical librarians gather annually for a [...]
Tue, May 10 2011 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet Charles W. Bailey made this announcement on the ETD listserv: Transforming Scholarly Publishing through Open Access: A Bibliography is now available from Digital Scholarship: http://digital-scholarship.org/tsp/transforming.htm This bibliography presents over 1,100 selected English-language scholarly works useful in understanding the open access movement’s efforts to provide free access to and unfettered use of scholarly literature. The [...]
Tue, September 14 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet On July 29th, Allan Adler, Vice President of government and legal affairs at the Association of American Publishers (AAP), told the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform’s Information Policy, Census, and National Archives Subcommittee that FRPAA would seriously threaten the scholarly publishing industry: “Publishers strongly believe that American taxpayers are entitled to the research [...]
Fri, August 13 2010 » Uncategorized » 1 Comment
Tweet When a library tweets about open access funding, I sit up and listen. The University of Tennessee, Knoxville Office of Research and University Libraries have renewed a fund of $20,000 for FY 2009-2010 to support publishing in open access journals. Credit must be given to the Library Scholarly Communication unit, which guides digital library [...]
Fri, July 9 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet The University of North Texas at Denton hosted an Open Access Symposium on May 18, 2010, part of their ongoing initiative to establish a campus open access policy. UNT would be the first public university in Texas, and only the second public university in the U.S., after the University of Kansas, to formalize a requirement [...]
Fri, May 28 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
Tweet “Will libraries continue to serve as intermediaries through which researchers find open-access information, as well as that available only through subscription, and how?” CRS Report for Congress: Open Access Publishing and Citation Archives: Background and Controversy (updated October 10, 2006) Because this blog is focused on the biomedical publishing, research, and library realm, here are a [...]
Mon, April 5 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
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