Accelerating access to biomedical evidence
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
The Journal of Clinical Oncology (JCO), published by the American Society of Clinical Oncology(ASCO), is considered a top shelf medical journal, ranked 4th for impact in oncology by the current Journal Citation Reports. JCO follows the historical standard of requiring assignment of author’s copyright to the publisher upon article acceptance. Authors submit manuscripts with the [...]
Wed, July 28 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
On June 4th the University of California Library System issued a very public complaint about Nature Publishing Group‘s proposed triple-digit increase in institutional subscription costs, coupled with a threat of author and editorial boycott by faculty. On June 24th, David Carlson, the Dean of Library Affairs at Southern Illinois University(SIU), Carbondale, and Associate Dean Connie [...]
Tue, July 13 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
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 a [...]
Fri, June 4 2010 » Uncategorized » 1 Comment
An objective summary of EBSCO journal subscription price records for academic medical journals (2005-2009 Journal Price History) shows an average 40% increase for the past five years. Last year, the Medical Library community issued a Statement on the Global Economic Crisis and its Impact on Health Sciences Library Collections which called to both publisher and public attention [...]
Wed, February 3 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Set up an institutional repository of biomedical pre- or post-print papers, theses, or open curriculum, and you wonder: how will my content be discovered? A very elegant solution exists called OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting). The original specifications for the OAI-PMH emerged from a coalition of web visionaries and programmers from both the Coalition for Networked [...]
Fri, January 15 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
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 library [...]
Thu, January 7 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
According to open access advocates, there are two primary colors: Green OA Self-Archiving: Authors self-archive the articles they publish in the 25,000 peer-reviewed journals or Gold OA Publishing: authors publish in one of the c. 3000 OA journals (some still recovering costs through institutional subscriptions, others through author/institutional publication charges) You can find [...]
Tue, January 5 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
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