Accelerating access to biomedical evidence
Tweet When did the idea of open science capture the imagination of researchers? A seminal moment in the history of open science occurred in 1982 with the creation of the public GenBank at Los Alamos National Laboratory(LANL). In 1992, functional management responsibility for the exponentially growing library of genetic sequences was transferred to the newly [...]
Sun, March 4 2012 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet The most significant scholarly re-focus on persistent, neglected illness in tropical areas was the support the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation provided to help launch in 2007 the open access journal PLos Neglected Tropical Diseases (PloSNTDS), now the leading Tropical Medicine journal in the Journal Citation Report (JCR) impact factor ranking. For 2009, PloSNTDS has an [...]
Tue, March 8 2011 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet I am a firm believer in quality peer review for open access biomedical journals. After all, these journals affect the health of individuals and communities all over the globe. But we are beyond the monopoly on quality health information, according to Harnad and others, that was characteristic of the pre-digital era when journals prided themselves on [...]
Fri, February 11 2011 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet Sometimes the soft firewall I try to keep between this blog and daily life at a top-tier academic medical center library just breaks down. One of my favorite scientist teachers down the hall turned to me when her favorite librarian wasn’t available. She was preparing a lecture for this fall’s new class of medical [...]
Tue, August 17 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet The Harvey Cushing /John Hay Whitney Medical Library (yes, my library!) of Yale University has recently digitized and released a collection of digitally reproduced full-text books by and about neurosurgeon Harvey Cushing. Dr. Cushing is widely regarded as the greatest neurosurgeon of the 20th century and often called the “father of modern neurosurgery”. Here are [...]
Wed, June 9 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Tweet Back in December Peter Suber mentioned on his blog that Columbia University has joined leading institutions such as Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, MIT, and UC Berkeley in a commitment to a Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity. The compact commits signatories to the timely establishment of mechanisms for underwriting reasonable publication fees for open access journal articles authored by researchers [...]
Sun, March 7 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
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