Accelerating access to biomedical evidence
Tweet This statement is a direct quotation from a 2006 article “Scientific Journals are ‘faith based’: is there science behind Peer review?” by a group of public health upstarts suggesting a lack of scientific method in the peer review process could be remedied by alternative methods of scholarly quality control and new forms of data-driven [...]
Sat, March 31 2012 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet The Medical library Association issued an Action Alert on January 12th, asking their membership to contact House Representatives and urge them to oppose H.R. 3699, The Research Works Act. MLA suggested using the talking points developed by the Alliance for Taxpayer Access: The bill would prohibit federal agencies from conditioning their grant funding to [...]
Sat, January 14 2012 » 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 There is one moment in this video when my dog started barking. No, my dog is not named Sparky (two weeks left to submit your entry)…
Wed, June 1 2011 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet What happens with 5.5 million students all over the world start to teach their friends, professors, and parents about the open access alternative to traditional publishing? As of today, this broad based student collective called The Right to Research Coalition represents the following organizations: • The American Medical Student Association • The American University Washington College [...]
Fri, December 17 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 6 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet eIFL.net is an international not-for-profit organization building partnerships with libraries around the world to enable sustainable access to high quality digital information for people in developing and transition countries. Like SPARC in the U.S., eIFL.net was originallystarted to address the serials pricing crisis in academic and research libraries in Central and Eastern Europe. eIFL.net [...]
Mon, July 5 2010 » Uncategorized » 1 Comment
Tweet 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 [...]
Sun, June 6 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
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