New Resource on Open Access
Welcome to the Open Access Directory (OAD), a compendium of simple factual lists about open access (OA) to science and scholarship, maintained by the OA community at large. By bringing many OA-related lists together in one place, OAD will make it easier for users, especially newcomers, to discover them and use them for reference. The easier they are to maintain and discover, the more effectively they can spread useful, accurate information about OA.
The goal is for the OA community itself to enlarge and correct the lists with little intervention from the editors or editorial board. For quality control, we limit editing privileges to registered users. We welcome your contributions to our lists, ideas for new lists, and comments to help us improve OAD. Please contact us or use the discussion tab. The Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Simmons College hosts this wiki.
Thank you for visiting during our launch,
Peter Suber (co-founder), Robin Peek (co-founder), Terry Plum, Athanasia Pontika, Charles Bailey, Leslie Chan, Melissa Hagemann, Heather Joseph, Alma Swan, John Wilbanks
Posted by Donna Braquet at 11:48 AM
NIH Public Access Policy Requests Input
NIH implemented the Public Access Policy on January 11, 2008. As of April 7, 2008, all final peer-reviewed manuscripts arising from NIH funds must be submitted to PubMed Central upon acceptance for publication. As of May 25, 2008, NIH applications, proposals, and progress reports must include the PubMed Central reference number when citing an article that falls under the policy and is authored or co-authored by the investigator, or arose from the investigator's NIH award.
Read more and send your comments>>
Posted by Donna Braquet at 03:46 PM
NIH Public Access Policy
On January 11, 2008, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced a revision to its Public Access Policy. The policy now *requires* eligible researchers to deposit copies of final manuscripts upon acceptance into a peer-reviewed journal so that they may be made publicly available within 12 months of publication. This policy applies to any journal articles resulting from research supported in whole or in part by direct funds from NIH. The manuscript is defined as the final version accepted for journal publication and includes all modifications from the publishing and peer-review process.
Posted by Donna Braquet at 12:31 PM
Harvard to Mandate Open Access
All papers by Harvard scholars accepted for publication as of today will be freely available to the public. The Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences unanimously passed a motion last night (February 12) that requires all arts and sciences faculty articles to be made publicly available.
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Read and post comments about this on the Chronicle of Higher Education site>>
Posted by Donna Braquet at 02:21 PM
Encyclopedia of Life-- authoritative, open access resource
http://www.eol.org/press_release.htmlA Leap for All Life: World's Leading Scientists Announce Creation of "Encyclopedia of Life"
Biodiversity, Science Communities Unite Behind Epic Effort To Promote Biodiversity, Document All 1.8 Million Named Species on Planet
WASHINGTON (May 9, 2007) - Many of the world's leading scientific institutions today announced the launch of the Encyclopedia of Life, an unprecedented global effort to document all 1.8 million named species of animals, plants, and other forms of life on Earth. For the first time in the history of the planet, scientists, students, and citizens will have multi-media access to all known living species, even those that have just been discovered.
The Field Museum of Natural History, Harvard University, Marine Biological Laboratory, Smithsonian Institution, and Biodiversity Heritage Library joined together to initiate the project, bringing together species and software experts from across the world. The Missouri Botanical Garden has become a full partner, and discussions are taking place this week with leaders of the new Atlas of Living Australia. The Encyclopedia today also announced the initial membership of its Institutional Council, which spans the globe, and whose members will play key roles in realizing this immense project. An international advisory board of distinguished individuals will also help guide the Encyclopedia.
Continue reading the press release>>
Posted by Donna Braquet at 05:39 PM
NIH offers free access to wealth of disease data
Project aims to mine information on genotypes, phenotypes and lifestyle.
An unprecedented repository of disease-related data, dbGaP, is bringing together information about the genes, health and lifestyles of thousands of subjects studied over many years. The web-based portal will allow any interested investigator to search across multiple epidemiological studies, in the hope of identifying new links to disease.
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Posted by Donna Braquet at 05:52 PM
Editorial Board of Elsevier Journal Resigns in Protest Over Pricing
Editorial Board of Elsevier Journal Resigns in Protest Over Pricing
By RICHARD MONASTERSKY
The entire editorial board of the prestigious mathematics journal Topology has resigned to protest the pricing policies of the journal's publisher, Elsevier, a giant European editorial company.
"Topology has a very high price per page," said Marc Lackenby, a member of the editorial board and a professor of mathematics at the University of Oxford. "Elsevier as a whole doesn't seem to be acting in the interest of the mathematical community."
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Posted by Donna Braquet at 01:02 PM
CBE--Life Sciences Education
The American Society for Cell Biology is pleased to announce that the full text of CBE--Life Sciences Education
is available online at http://www.lifescied.org/
CBE--Life Sciences Education (CBE-LSE) is a free, online, quarterly journal owned and published by the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB). The journal publishes original, previously unpublished, peer-reviewed articles on life sciences education at the K-12, undergraduate, and graduate levels. The ASCB believes that learning in biology encompasses diverse fields, including math, chemistry, physics, engineering, computer science, and the interdisciplinary intersections of biology with these fields. Within biology, CBE-LSE is particularly interested in how students are introduced to the study of life sciences, as well as teaching approaches in cell biology, developmental biology, neuroscience, biochemistry, molecular biology, genetics, genomics, bioinformatics, and proteomics. One goal of the journal is to encourage teachers and instructors to view design of educational projects the way scientists view their research, as an intellectual undertaking with results than can be measured based on evidence of student learning. The target audience includes K-12; community college, comprehensive college, and university students; graduate students; postdocs; and teachers training at any level.
CBE-LSE is published online four times a year, in March (Spring issue), June (Summer issue), September (Fall issue), and December (Winter issue).
CBE-LSE also prints a highlights issue each year in December, featuring contributions selected from the four online issues. Submissions are accepted at any time.
CBE-LSE Online contains the full content of each issue of the journal, including all figures and tables, beginning with the Spring/Summer 2002 issue (Volume 1, Issue 1). The full text is searchable by keyword, and the cited references include hyperlinks to Medline and to the online full text of many other frequently cited journals. PDF files, abstracts, and Tables of Contents are available beginning in Spring/Summer 2002 (Volume 1, Issue 1). ISSN: 1931-7913.
Posted by Donna Braquet at 12:54 PM
Federal Access to Federal Scientific Research
Contact:
Prudence S. Adler
(202) 296-2296
NEWS for Immediate Release:
American Association of Law Libraries, American Library Association, Association of Research Libraries, Association of College and Research Libraries, Medical Library Association, Special Libraries Association
May 2, 2006
Library Groups Applaud Legislation that Improves Public Access to Federal Scientific Research
Washington, DC--A coalition of national library associations praised the introduction of the "Federal Research Public Access Act of 2006." The legislation, introduced by Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) and Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D-CT) would require federal agencies with extramural research portfolios over $100 million to make the electronic versions of peer-reviewed articles publicly available via the Internet within 6 months of publication.
"Far too often the results of research that the U.S. government funds--with billions of taxpayer dollars each year--are not broadly available to researchers, scientists, physicians and members of the public. This legislation will greatly expand public access while at the same time, ensure that these articles generated with federal support are available to future generations," said Prudence S. Adler, a spokesperson for the coalition.
Enhanced public access to publicly funded research spurs innovation and competition by accelerating research, sharing knowledge, improving treatment of diseases, and supports the educational enterprise.
The coalition is made up of the American Association of Law Libraries, the American Library Association, the Association of Research Libraries, the Association of College and Research Libraries, the Medical Library Association, and the Special Libraries Association. These associations collectively represent over 139,000 libraries in the United States employing 350,000 librarians and library workers. The mission of libraries is to foster global access to information for creative, research, and educational uses.
The American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) is a nonprofit educational organization with over 5,000 members nationwide. AALL's mission is to promote and enhance the value of law libraries to the legal and public communities, to foster the profession of law librarianship, and to provide leadership in the field of legal information and information policy. http://www.aall.org/
Contact: Mary Alice Baish (202-662-9200)
The American Library Association (ALA) is a nonprofit educational organization of over 65,000 librarians, library trustees, and other friends of libraries dedicated to improving library services and promoting the public interest in a free and open information society. http://www.ala.org/
Contact: Miriam Nisbet (202-628-8410)
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is a nonprofit organization of 123 research libraries in North America. ARL's members include university libraries, public libraries, government and national libraries. Its mission is to shape and influence forces affecting the future of research libraries in the process of scholarly communication. ARL programs and services promote equitable access to and effective uses of recorded knowledge in support of teaching, research, scholarship and community service. http://www.arl.org/
Contact: Prudence S. Adler (202-296-2296)
The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) is a division of the American Library Association (ALA), representing more than 13,000 academic and research librarians and interested individuals. Its initiatives enable the higher education community to understand the role that academic libraries play in the teaching, learning, and research environments. http://www.acrl.org/
Contact: Mary Ellen Davis (800-545-24222, x3248)
The Medical Library Association (MLA), a nonprofit, educational organization, is a leading advocate for health sciences information professionals with more than 4,700 members worldwide. Through its programs and services, MLA provides lifelong educational opportunities, supports a knowledgebase of health information research, and works with a global network of partners to promote the importance of quality information for improved health to the health care community and the public. http://www.mlanet.org/
Contact: Carla Funk (312-419-9094 x14)
The Special Libraries Association (SLA) is a nonprofit global organization for innovative information professionals and their strategic partners. SLA serves more than 12,000 members in 83 countries in the information profession, including corporate, academic and government information specialists. SLA promotes and strengthens its members through learning, advocacy and networking initiatives. http://www.sla.org/
Contact: Doug Newcomb (703-647-4923)
Posted by Donna Braquet at 04:53 PM
Open Access Newsletter
The May issues of the Open Access Newsletter, compiled by OA advocate, Peter Suber is now available.
Top Story:
The Federal Research Public Access Act of 2006
Top Stories in April:
* EC report calls for OA to publicly-funded research.
* Microsoft introduces Microsoft Live Academic Search
* The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) is developing an OA policy.
* Elias Zerhouni admits that NIH may need an OA mandate.
* The RCUK gives two clues to its recent thinking.
* Biodiversity conference calls for OA to biodiversity data.
* Eprints and DSpace add buttons for email eprints.
Posted by Donna Braquet at 03:27 PM
Open Access Webliography
Reshaping the World of Scholarly Communication--Open Access and the Free Online Scholarship Movement: Open Access Statements, Proposals, Declarations, Principles, Strategies, Organizations, Projects, Campaigns, Initiatives, and Related Items -- A Webliography
Compiled by Paul G. Haschak, Associate Professor and Collection Development Librarian
Linus A. Sims Memorial Library, Southeastern Louisiana University
phaschak@selu.edu
Since World War II, we have seen a proliferation of scholarly materials. In particular, there has been a tremendous growth in the size and cost of the primary journal literature.
With prices continuing to rise at a rate greater than the general price index, the current scholarly communication system is becoming more and more unaffordable.
The rise in the cost of serial subscriptions has forced academic libraries over the last several decades to cancel existing serial titles, add fewer and fewer new serial titles, and buy fewer and fewer books.
In is apparent, that the crisis in the scholarly communication system not only threatens the well being of libraries, but also it threatens our academic faculty's ability to do world-class research.
With current technologies, we now have, for the first time in history, the tools necessary to effect change ourselves.
We must do everything in our power to change the current scholarly communication system and promote open access to scholarly articles.
Posted by Donna Braquet at 04:57 PM
PLoS News
Impact Factor
PLoS Biology received its first Impact Factor from the ISI of 13.9, placing it #1 among general Biology journals, above the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science and the EMBO Journal, both well established journals published by prestigious scientific organizations.
PLoS Stats
Unique Users
The number of unique users visiting our journal web sites, every month, as identified by their IP addresses, has more than doubled in 2005, from approximately 74,000 in January to over 160,000 in December (aggregated for all journals).
Downloads
PLoS Biology and PLoS Medicine papers were downloaded over 180,000 times (full paper downloads, not just hits) in December 2005. The Community Journals' usage stats are also growing nicely, with PLoS Computational Biology receiving nearly 22,000 hits in December, just six months after its launch.
[source: PLoS E-Newsletter]
Posted by Donna Braquet at 02:18 PM
OA Biodiversity Heritage Library
Smithsonian Institution Teams with Major International Natural History and Botanical Libraries to Digitize Biodiversity Holdings
Eight of the world's major natural history and botanical libraries are working together to develop a strategy and operational plan to digitize the published literature on biodiversity that they jointly hold and make it freely accessible to all on the Web. The project, the Biodiversity Heritage Library, will establish a major corpus of publications drawn from each of their collections. Much of the published literature is rare or has limited global distribution and is available in only a few select libraries. From a scholarly perspective, these collections are of exceptional value because the domain of systematic biology depends more than any other science on historic literature.
The eight participating libraries have more than 2 million volumes of biodiversity literature collected over 200 years to support scientists and students throughout the world. Until now, this body of biodiversity knowledge effectively has been unavailable for wide use in a broad range of applications, including research, education, taxonomic study, biodiversity conservation, protected area management, disease control and maintenance of diverse ecosystems. The participants are:
-Smithsonian Institution Libraries and the National Museum of Natural History, Washington
-American Museum of Natural History, New York
-Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Mass.
-Harvard University Botany Libraries, Cambridge, Mass.
-Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis
-The Natural History Museum, London
-The New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, N.Y.
-Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Surrey
The participating organizations will work with the global taxonomic community, rights holders and other interested parties to ensure that their collective historical heritage is available to all who seek it. Web-based access to the collections will provide a substantial benefit to people living and working in the developing world who have not been able to benefit from the information held in these collections. This could have major implications for biodiversity and ecological research. Cristi Samper, director of the National Museum of Natural History said, "The Natural History Museum and botanical libraries hold a wealth of resources that describe and explain the diversity and depth of life on earth. Mining these texts for research and other vitally important uses is difficult, time-consuming and often leads to redundant efforts. By opening this important biodiversity literature to the world, the Biodiversity Heritage Library will immeasurably advance science."
"The Web gives us new opportunities to share our collections with people all over the world, especially with those who previously would have had to visit us to gain access. This is particularly important for the developing world, where much of the planet's biodiversity is to be found. With more than 25,000 periodicals in our collections, as well as a huge number of books, we are eager to work with the other institutions involved in the Biodiversity Heritage Library," said Dr. Richard Lane, director of science at the Natural History Museum in London.
The consortium is in discussion with the scientific, biological and computer science communities to take the project to the next stage. More information about the Biodiversity Heritage Library
Posted by Donna Braquet at 11:57 AM
Sharing Open Access Successes
Open Access Program Survey
This website provides a way for librarians,
faculty and administrators can share the concept and execution of open
access programs held at their universities. On this page, SPARC members and other can submit information about the open access programs on their
campus and browse information about other institutions' efforts. The site also contains information on institutional repositories and scholarly communication programs in general. Much of the information on the site was originally gathered by Rebecca Kemp, Electronic Resources/Serials Librarian at UNC Wilmington.
Posted by Donna Braquet at 04:53 PM
PNAS Open Access Option
Beginning in 2005, each PNAS Institutional Site License (online subscription) will automatically include an Institutional Open Access Membership. Authors from institutions with Site Licenses/Open Access Memberships are entitled to a 25% discount off the PNAS Open Access Fee (regularly $1000) to make their papers immediately free online.
Posted by Donna Braquet at 04:37 PM
ACS and PubChem
The ACS is calling for the removal of NIH's PubChem. Get background information, links to articles, and information about what you can do at UC's Office of Scholarly Communication website.
Posted by Donna Braquet at 02:47 PM
New open access chemistry journal
Open-Access Organic Chemistry Journal Debuts
by Ann Thayer, March 21, 2005
The Beilstein Institute for the Advancement of Chemical Sciences, in
Germany, with help from online publisher BioMed Central, is launching the Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry. The peer-reviewed publication will be the first major open-access journal in this field, its sponsors say. “Open-access journals, which are freely available to readers online, enhance the journal publishing process without compromising its important quality-control function,” the institute says in an online introduction to the journal. The debut coincides with an escalating debate around open access as NIH and the American Chemical Society and other publishers recently unveiled policies to broaden access to research articles.
Go to the full press release>>
Posted by Donna Braquet at 12:21 PM
Message from PLoS
To the PLoS Community:
The U.S. National Institutes of Health recently announced its
long-anticipated "Public Access Policy," designed to make the results of
NIH-funded research freely available online. As of May 2005, the agency
will request that all NIH grantees deposit copies of all papers arising
from NIH-funded research in PubMed Central (PMC), the National Library of
Medicine's online library of scientific and medical literature. These
articles will then be made freely available and fully searchable through
PMC within 12 months of publication. (More information about the policy is
available here.
PLoS welcomes this announcement. It is an important step for those of us
who believe that the results of publicly funded scientific and medical
research can and should be made freely available to researchers and the
public. However, because of the way the NIH has structured this policy,
successful implementation will depend upon the supportive actions of
NIH-funded researchers.
Under the NIH'S Public Access Policy, grantees are requested to send a copy
of every manuscript describing NIH-supported work to PMC immediately upon
acceptance by a peer-reviewed journal. The manuscripts will be formatted
for online display, and made freely available through PMC at a time
specified by the author. Clearly it would be ideal if there were no delay
between publication by the journal and posting in PMC, so that all
scientists and the public would have immediate access to NIH-funded
research. This is the case for articles published in all PLoS or other
open-access journals. However, authors who publish in most other journals
may be pressured to delay public posting of their articles or not to post
them at all. This pressure must be resisted.
It is critically important that all of us do everything we can to make sure
this new system succeeds. Technically, submission of articles to PMC is
voluntary, and the policy allows a delay of up to 12 months. However, it is
clear that the NIH, Members of Congress, and the public desire and expect
full participation. If we fail to meet these expectations, it could
undermine the existing broad public and legislative support for scientific
research at a time when such support is especially vital.
We therefore urge everyone who receives this message to make your
NIH-funded articles available in PMC immediately upon publication. This can
be accomplished in either of two ways:
(a) Publish your papers in open-access journals that already deposit their
papers in PMC and make them immediately and freely available.
(b) If you publish in non open-access journals, deposit your manuscripts in
PMC and exercise your right to stipulate that they be posted online
immediately upon publication.
Please share this message with your colleagues and urge them to help foster
the success of the new policy. We would be happy to answer any questions,
and we again thank you for your attention to and support of Open Access.
Harold Varmus
Patrick Brown
Michael Eisen
PLoS Founders
Posted by Donna Braquet at 02:37 PM
NIH Funded Research Policy: Press Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thursday, February 3, 2005
CONTACTS:
Don Ralbovsky
OD Office of Communications and Public Liaison
301-496-5787
NIH CALLS ON SCIENTISTS TO SPEED PUBLIC RELEASE OF RESEARCH
PUBLICATIONS
Online Archive Will Make Articles Accessible to the Public
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced today a
new policy designed to accelerate the public's access to
published articles resulting from NIH-funded research. The
policy - the first of its kind for NIH - calls on
scientists to release to the public manuscripts from
research supported by NIH as soon as possible, and within
12 months of final publication.
These peer-reviewed, NIH-funded research publications will
be available in a Web-based archive to be managed by the
National Library of Medicine (NLM), a component of NIH. The
online archive will increase the public's access to health-
related publications at a time when demand for such
information is on a steady rise.
"With the rapid growth in the public's use of the Internet,
NIH must take a leadership role in making available to the
public the research that we support," said NIH Director
Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D. "While this new policy is
voluntary, we are strongly encouraging all NIH-supported
researchers to release their published manuscripts as soon
as possible for the benefit of the public. Scientists have
a right to see the results of their work disseminated as
quickly and broadly as possible, and NIH is committed to
helping our scientists exercise this right. We urge
publishers to work closely with authors in implementing
this policy."
"In developing this policy, we made a concerted effort to
balance the importance of this archive to NIH's public
health mission, with the need to provide flexibility for
authors, their institutions, and publishers in those cases
where immediate release is not possible," Zerhouni added.
"NIH recognizes the importance of preserving quality peer
review and the viability of a diversity of publishing
models. Nevertheless, we expect that only in limited cases
will authors deem it necessary to select the longest delay
period."
The NIH policy will achieve several important goals,
including:
(1) creating a stable archive of peer-reviewed research
publications resulting from NIH-funded studies to ensure
the permanent preservation of these vital research
findings;
(2) securing a searchable compendium of these research
publications that NIH and its awardees can use to manage
more efficiently and to understand better their research
portfolios, monitor scientific productivity, and,
ultimately, help set research priorities; and
(3) making published results of NIH-funded research more
readily accessible to the public, health care providers,
educators, and scientists.
Beginning May 2, 2005, the policy requests that NIH-funded
scientists submit an electronic version of the author's
final manuscript, upon acceptance for publication,
resulting from research supported in whole or in part by
NIH. The author's final manuscript is defined as the final
version accepted for journal publication, and includes all
modifications from the publishing peer review process.
The policy gives authors the flexibility to designate a
specific time frame for public release - ranging from
immediate public access after final publication to a 12
month delay - when they submit their manuscripts to NIH.
Authors are strongly encouraged to exercise their right to
specify that their articles will be publicly available
through PubMed Central (PMC) as soon as possible.
PMC a part of the NIH's
National Library of Medicine (NLM), is the agency's digital
repository of full-text, peer-reviewed biomedical,
behavioral, and clinical research journals. It is a
publicly-accessible, stable, permanent, and searchable
electronic archive.
The release of this policy follows months of intensive
deliberations with representatives of patient and
scientific organizations, researchers, and publishers. NIH
posted the draft policy for public comment in September,
and received and reviewed over 6,000 public comments.
As part of on-going efforts to implement this new policy,
NIH plans to establish a Public Access Advisory Working
Group, as a subgroup of the NLM's Board of Regents. The
Working Group will include representatives of the patient
advocacy, scientific, library, and publishing communities,
and will provide advice on implementation issues and assess
progress in meeting the new policy's stated goals.
Additional information on the new policy and related
documents, including a "Questions and Answers" fact sheet.
<>.
The NIH comprises the Office of the Director and 27
Institutes and Centers. The Office of the Director is the
central office at NIH, and is responsible for setting
policy for NIH and for planning, managing, and coordinating
the programs and activities of all the NIH components. The
NIH, the Nation's medical research agency, is a component
of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It is
the primary Federal agency for conducting and supporting
basic, clinical, and translational medical research, and
investigates the causes, treatments, and cures for both
common and rare diseases.
Posted by Donna Braquet at 05:35 PM
OSTI selected as SPARC partner
January 10, 2005
For more information, contact:
Alison Buckholtz, SPARC, alison@arl.org
Susan Tackett, OSTI, tacketts@osti.gov
SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) today announced that the E-print Network, a free service of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), has been chosen as a SPARC 'Scientific Communities' partner. The selection recognizes the contribution of the E-print Network to expanded availability and use of open-access scientific and technical research on the Internet.
Read the entire press release>>
Posted by Donna Braquet at 11:08 AM
PLoS to offer three new journals
PLoS has posted a press release
with additional details
about the three new journals to be introduced in 2005.
PLoS Computational Biology
Fulltext forthcoming June 2005
Print ISSN: 1553-734X | Online ISSN: 1553-7358
PLoS Genetics
Fulltext forthcoming July 2005
Print ISSN: 1553-7390 | Online ISSN: 1553-7404
PLoS Pathogens
no start date or website yet at PLoS
Ulrich's indicates September 2005 -- Print ISSN: 1553-7366
Posted by Donna Braquet at 11:17 AM
BBC radio program on Scientific Publishing
Publish or Be Damned (scroll down to "p")
A program about the journals pricing crisis, scientific publishing, and new options in Open Access.
Posted by Donna Braquet at 11:14 AM
LANL Library gets grant to study research repository system
See summary at the Open Access News blog.
Posted by Donna Braquet at 10:06 AM
Public Library of Medicine Journal Debuts
The second journal form Public Library of Science, PLoS Medicine debuted on October 19. You can find out more information about the benefits for publishing in PLoS Medicine.
Posted by Donna Braquet at 04:15 PM
BIOS (Biological Innovation for Open Society)
The BIOS initiative will develop and validate a new means for the cooperative invention, improvement and delivery of biological technologies, drawing inspiration from the open source software movement to forge a 'protected commons' of knowledge and technology.
A detailed description of the CAMBIA BIOS initiative is available by downloading the BIOS Initiative document.
Posted by Donna Braquet at 03:10 PM
Open Access Survey
Take a few minutes to complete this survey about Open Access publishing.
Posted by Donna Braquet at 01:54 PM
NAS endorses NIH Open Access Plan
Statement from the Council of the National Academy of Sciences
"The Council of the National Academy of Sciences endorses the proposed National Institutes of Health (NIH) policy that research supported by NIH will be made freely available online at PubMed Central (PMC) not later than six months after publication in a peer-reviewed journal. The benefits of this policy to science worldwide and to the general public seem to us to be significant."
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Posted by Donna Braquet at 10:48 AM