Nur zur Vollständigkeit (Sie werden es alle schon wissen): Based on PubMed Central (PMC), the US National Institutes of Health free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature, (http://ukpmc.ac.uk/) UK PubMed Central (UKPMC) provides a stable, permanent, and…
Kategorie: Open Access
Karger adopts a hybrid OA model for eight journals
From Open Access News by Peter Suber: Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers has adopted a hybrid OA model for eight of its journals. From today’s press release: Karger Publishers is pleased to announce Author’s Choice. Karger Publishers is currently conducting…
Biomed Central erhoeht Preise zu 2007
Wie vorausgesagt, erhoeht BioMed Central weiter die Article Procession Charges, diesmal von 750 auf 850 Pfund (BMC journals, effective 1.1.2007), d.h. ca. um 13%, bzw. 800 Pfund (Durchschnitt, independent journals, effective 1.7.2007). Das Ende der Fahnenstange (1.900 $) ist noch…
Open Access publishing in physics gains momentum
Von Thomas Stamm: Neues vom CERN und Open Access (Press Release 03.11.06): This is the first time an entire scientific field (Particle Physics) is exploring the conversion of its reader-paid journals into an author-paid Open Access format.
BioMed Central’s Open Access Colloquium
BioMed Central is hosting an Open Access Colloquium in London (UK) on Thursday 8th February, 2007. Entitled ‘Open Access: How Can We Achieve Quality and Quantity?’, this one-day event is aimed at authors, clinicians, funders, librarians, and policy makers.
Openaccess-Germany
Das am 6.9. gebloggte OA-Portal (DFG-Projekt) nun mit Inhalten. [Thanks to Cordula N.]
Beyond Open Access Moralism
T.Scott Plutchak fordert in einem lesenswerten Essay (‚Posting‘ mag man bei seinen ausgefeilten Elaboraten schon nicht mehr sagen) die Umkehr zu rationalen Argumenten weg von der Alles-oder-Nichts-Steuerzahler-Diskussion. Ich fühle mich etwas persönlich betroffen, da ich auch gerne moralisiere. Aber wegen…
BioMed Central’s 100th independent journal
BioMed Central is proud to announce the launch of their 100th independent journal, Source Code for Biology and Medicine. Und weiter mit den guten Nachrichten: Three BioMed Central journals were this month accepted by Thomson Scientific (ISI) for inclusion in…
Current Status of Open Access in Biomedical Field
Sehr interessante Studie. Von 20 Top-Publikationsländern in PubMed hat Deutschland die drittschlechteste Open Access Ratio. [via Biomedbiblog]
Pubdrug – The open access drug resource
PubDrug ist eine Wiki-Anwendung (und noch ziemlich leer). [Thanks to Silke Frank]
Open Access success of the Journal of Postgraduate Medicine
Open access in the developing world: Regaining the lost impact by Dr D. K. Sahu, Managing Director, Medknow Publications Pvt Ltd., Mumbai, India, auf dem Workshop on Electronic Publishing and Open Access Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 2-3 November 2006…
DFG-Projekt zu Self-Archiving: SHERPA/RoMEO auf Deutsch
Ein DFG-Projekt der UB Stuttgart: Open Access Policies – Was gestatten deutsche Verlage ihren Autoren? Im Rahmen dieses von der DFG geförderten Projektes sollen die an zahlreichen deutschen Hochschulen und wissenschaftlichen Einrichtungen vorhandenen Informationen zu Möglichkeiten der zusätzlichen Bereitstellung von…
Geschäftsmodelle des Open Access-Publizierens: Perspektiven für Bibliotheken
Und wenn wir schon mal bei BFP sind: Birgit Schmidt beschreibt in einem schönen Übersichtsartikel die Geschäftsmodelle des Open Access-Publizierens: Welche Perspektiven bieten sich hier für Bibliotheken?
NLM’s Long-Range Plan 2006-2016
Charting a Course for the 21st Century: NLM’s Long-Range Plan 2006-2016. Zitat der Woche (Thanks OAN and Clifford Lynch): [By 2025] the majority of new scientific research results will be freely available in permanent digital archives shortly after initial production…
University of Zürich with new Open Access site
The Open Access site of the University Zürich is now updated as well as bilingual (dt./engl.). The site seems to be maintained by the University Library.
Responses to EU study on scientific publication markets
I had reported before on the Study on the economic and technical evolution of the scientific publication markets in Europe by the European Commission’s Research Directorate-General. Someone performed a huge workload now and collected and synthesized all the responses: Synthesis…
Strong Copyright + DRM + Weak Net Neutrality = Digital Dystopia?
Article by Charles w. Bailey, Jr. Abstract: Three critical issues – dramatic expansion of the scope, duration, and punitive nature of copyright laws; the ability of Digital Rights Management (DRM) systems to lock-down digital content in an unprecedented fashion; and…
Open access and the Wellcome Trust – mandate effective from 1st October 2006
From 1st October 2006 it is a requirement on all Wellcome Trust-funded researchers to ensure that any research papers arising from Trust funded research, that have been accepted for publication in a peer-reviewed journal, are made freely accessible from the…
Elsevier agreement with Wellcome Trust
Tony McSean, Elsevier Director of Library Relations, is pleased to announce that Elsevier has made an agreement with the Wellcome Trust that allows authors who publish in Elsevier journals to comply with Wellcome Trust’s policy requiring grantholders to deposit final…
Taylor & Francis announce iOpenAccess
Taylor & Francis announced the introduction of an „iOpenAccess“ option for authors publishing in all journals from T&F and Informa Healthcare. From October 2006, all authors whose manuscripts are accepted for publication in one of the iOpenAccess journals will have…