WHO HINARI Project makes journals available to selected countries…

Thanks to Bill Clintworth at USC!

The World Health Organization has had a program in place for several years called the HINARI Project.  This project makes over 6200 journals from approximately 150 different publishers available to countries with low GNI per capita.  For some countries, access is completely free (Nicaragua qualifies) and then there is [...]

From PLoS Medicine: Why Current Publication Practices May Distort Science

…The current system of publication in biomedical research provides a distorted view of the reality of scientific data…
This essay makes the underlying assumption that scientific information is an economic commodity, and that scientific journals are a medium for its dissemination and exchange. While this exchange system differs from a conventional market in many senses, including [...]

Help us evaluate Faculty of 1000 online resource(s)!

Kristy has arranged for a trial for Faculty of 1000 Biology and Faculty of 1000 Medicine. To access the resources go to:
-Faculty of 1000 Biology at http://www.f1000biology.com
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About the Faculty of 1000–

Faculty of 1000 Biology is the next generation literature awareness tool. It is a revolutionary online research service that comprehensively [...]

FDA Amendments Act of 2007 now in effect…

As of Sept. 27, 2008, the U.S. FDA Amendments Act of 2007 (FDAAA 2007) will require that clinical trial results be made publicly available on the Internet through an expanded “registry and results databank.”  Under FDAAA, enrollment and outcomes data from trials of drugs, biologics and devices (excluding phase 1 trials) must appear in an [...]

Do you have questions about copyright and your Federally funded research?

Duke’s scholarly communication website reports a new government site that answers MANY questions about this potentially confusing issue. See http://library.duke.edu/blogs/scholcomm/2008/09/03/copyright-faq-for-government-works/ for more info and keep up to date at the Duke site at:  http://library.duke.edu/blogs/scholcomm/
For scholarly authors, however, the biggest value of the site is the section answering questions about copyright in works created under a [...]

Creating Direct Links to Journal Articles

Providing links to online journal articles allows the sharing of content protected by copyright without needing to seek permission. (For more information on copyright, see http://www.library.arizona.edu/help/tutorials/copyright/index.html.) Links can often be made via Digital Object Identifier (DOI), direct URL, or another path particular to the online provider.

Digital Object Identifier (DOI ®): The most persistently accurate way [...]

How to Retain Ownership of Your Copyright…

…when Dealing with Publishers
(A Very Short Guide to Negotiation)

The term “negotiation” may be a bit formal, and may bring to mind images of legally sophisticated advocates vying for advantage over one another by inserting arcane phrases into a complex document. Rest assured that such a scenario is not being referred to here. Nevertheless, [...]

NIH Public Access Policy, revisited…

Recipients of funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) should be aware that a new reporting requirement (http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-08-033.html) went into effect on April 7, 2008. Principal investigators must ensure that electronic versions of any peer-reviewed manuscripts arising from NIH funding and accepted for publication on or after that date are deposited in PubMed Central [...]

Web of Science offers Cite Map Feature

A Citation Map is a graphical representation that shows the citation relationships (cited references and citing articles) between a paper and other papers using various visualization tools and techniques.
Using citation mapping, you can analyze which researchers are citing your papers. You can also choose to organize and color code the results by author, year, journal [...]

BMJ to begin new publishing strategy-continuous publication

Continuous publication
“The next logical step
The BMJ is about to undergo another shift in the way that it publishes its content, which we hope will provide benefits for both readers and authors. From the beginning of July we will be publishing content continuously on bmj.com. All our articles will be published on line as they [...]