Accelerating access to biomedical evidence
The 2nd annual Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing (COASP) is taking place this week, August 22-24, at the President Hotel, Prague, Czech Republic One of the most eagerly expected presentations was given on August 23rd, the First results of the SOAP Project (large PDF, be patient). There is also a SlideShare version of the presentation.
Thu, August 26 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
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 they’ve [...]
Fri, August 13 2010 » Uncategorized » 1 Comment
I saw the announcement on resourceshelf.com about The University of Ottawa Press decision to launch a new open access collection of 36 UOP books will be available free to the online community in the University of Ottawa’s institutional repository, uO Research, including both French and English-language in-print titles in the arts, humanities and social sciences. Curious about the representation [...]
Sun, August 8 2010 » Uncategorized » 1 Comment
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 they’ve [...]
Fri, August 6 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
From the ARL SPARC press release: Washington, DC – The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Information Policy, the Census and National Archives announced it will hold a hearing on the issue of public access to federally funded research on Thursday, July 29. The hearing will provide an opportunity [...]
Tue, July 20 2010 » Uncategorized » 4 Comments
The United Kingdom’s SHERPA (Securing a Hybrid Environment for Research Preservation and Access) is based at the Centre for Research Communications, University of Nottingham and works on projects related to open Access and repository development. Think of SHERPA as a British equivalent of ARL’s (Association of Research Libraries) SPARC (Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition). [...]
Sun, June 6 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
“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 few [...]
Mon, April 5 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Spin is everything. The result of the Scholarly Publishing Roundtable of key stakeholders charged on October 29th, 2009, by the U.S. House of Representatives Science and Technology Committee in collaboration with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), was released on January 12th, 2010, after reaching enough consensus to suggest something was [...]
Tue, January 19 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
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