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 students [...]
Tags: Alliance for Taxpayer Access, medical school, NEJM, NIH Public Access Policy, publishers, Yale University
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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 some [...]
Tags: Harvey Cushing, History of Medicine, Yale University
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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 without [...]
Tags: Columbia University, Gold OA, Harold Varmus, MSKCC, Peter Suber, PLoS, UC Berkeley, University of Pennsylvania, Yale University
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