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Information Today January 7, 2002 Barbara Quint |
BioMed Central Begins Charging Authors and Their Institutions for Article Publishing Starting this month, BioMed Central, the "publishing company committed to a policy of free access to scientific research" (as it describes itself), will introduce a processing charge for articles published in its nearly 60 online journals... |
Information Today September 3, 2001 Barbara Quint |
BioMed Central Launches 12 New Author-Initiated Research E-Journals In a major new publishing initiative, BioMed Central has expanded its role in pioneering alternatives for scholarly publishing on the Web... |
Searcher January 2002 Myer Kutz |
The Scholars Rebellion Against Scholarly Publishing Practices: Varmus, Vitek, and Venting In the decades-long arguments over STM (scientific/technical/medical) journal publishing, mainly about subscription price increases and intellectual property and accessibility issues, one thing has changed in the last few years. Scholars have become involved... |
Information Today January 2004 Robin Peek |
Open Access Expands Its Reach Trying to keep up with all the recent twists and turns in the open-access movement would make you a busy bee. And just in case you aren't certain about what open access means, BioMed Central would like to help you out. |
Information Today February 2007 Miriam A. Drake |
Scholarly Communication in Turmoil Two leading experts provide some insight into scholarly publishing now and in the future. |
Information Today March 3, 2015 Brandi Scardilli |
University Libraries Offer an Alternative to Traditional Publishing As digital tools get easier to use, many institutions are starting their own publishing programs in an effort to offer more varied services to their communities. |
D-Lib May 2000 Richard K. Johnson |
A Question of Access SPARC, BioOne, and Society-Driven Electronic Publishing |
Information Today October 16, 2008 Susanne Bjorner |
Open Access Moves Into the Mainstream: BioMed Central Purchased by Springer STM publishing giant Springer Science+Business Media announced that it had reached an agreement to purchase BioMed Central Group, the leading global open access publisher, for an undisclosed price. |
Information Today March 7, 2013 Nancy K. Herther |
Library Publishing Coalition -- A Milestone in Evolution of Scholarly Publishing For the past year, representatives of some of the most influential university libraries in the country have been meeting and exploring the potential for library/press partnerships for scholarly publishing in the future. |
Information Today March 22, 2004 Barbara Quint |
Sci-Tech Not-For-Profit Publishers Commit to Limited Open Access The DC Principles are a response to charges that current publisher practices impede access to published scientific research. |
Information Today January 17, 2012 Robin Peek |
Research Works Act Could Challenge Public Access to Federally Funded Research This act is designed to thwart activities such as the National Institutes of Health Public Access Policy, which requires scientists to submit final peer-reviewed journal manuscripts that arise from NIH funds to the digital archive PubMed Central. |
Information Today September 17, 2012 |
Diverse OA Coalition Issues New Guidelines to Make Research Freely Available The recommendations were developed by leaders of the open access movement, which has worked for the past decade to provide the public with unrestricted, free access to scholarly research -- much of which is publicly funded. |
Searcher December 2004 Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Only Libraries, Only Librarians If Congress were to wave its magic wand and mandate open access across the federal research effort, it could accelerate the open access movement overnight. But are we ready? |
Information Today October 13, 2009 |
SPARC Reviews Income Models for Open Access Publishing The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition examines the issue of sustainability for current and prospective open access publishers in a new guide, Income Models for Open Access: An Overview of Current Practice. |
Information Today March 2001 Paula J. Hane |
bepress.com Introduces Innovative Scholarly Publishing Model A new electronic publishing venture has launched that is taking on the scholarly publishing establishment. bepress.com (The Berkeley Electronic Press) was started by three University of California-Berkeley professors and a programmer from the Inktomi team... |
Information Today June 2, 2011 |
SPARC Introduces Open Access Journal Publishing Resource Index Materials in the index will help libraries, presses, and other academic units on campuses as they work together to make the work of their researchers more widely available. |
Information Today July 26, 2004 Richard Poynder |
British Politicians Call on U.K. Government to Support Open Access Following 7 months of deliberation, the U.K. House of Commons' Science and Technology Committee has concluded that the current model for scientific publishing is unsatisfactory. |
Information Today October 15, 2012 Abby Clobridge |
Open Access Week Preview For most institutions, Open Access Week is a way to increase the visibility of open access among scientists, researchers, librarians, university faculty members, and students. |
Information Today April 16, 2007 |
BioMed Central to Provide PhysMath Platform BioMed Central announced three journals to be launched by PhysMath Central, an open access publishing platform for the fields of physics, mathematics, and computer science. |
Information Today March 2003 Dick Kaser |
The Future of Journals Elsevier executive Pieter Bolman talks about the future of scholarly publishing and the competition emerging from alternative publication models like the Public Library of Science |
Information Today November 11, 2002 |
News Digest FluentMedia Adds Content from COMTEX... University of California Joins BioMed Central Program... ProQuest to Digitize Tribune Publishing Newspapers |
D-Lib November 2002 Richard K. Johnson |
Institutional Repositories Partnering with faculty to enhance scholarly communication using digital collections that capture and preserve the intellectual output of a single or multi-university community. |
Searcher March 2005 Carol Ebbinghouse |
Open Access: The Battle for Universal, Free Knowledge Many publishers are joining authors in permitting open access through self-archiving in institutional repositories. |
Information Today November 12, 2013 Abby Clobridge |
A Conversation With BioMed Central's Cockerill on Open Access Publishing BMC was founded in 2000 and was acquired by Springer Science+Business Media in 2008. Last month, I had a chance to sit down with Matthew Cockerill to talk about some of his experiences with OA and STM publishing. |
Information Today October 24, 2011 |
Open Access Week 2011 Opens Oct. 24 Coordinated by The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, the event provides an opportunity to learn about the benefits of Open Access, share new ideas and strategies, and inspire wider participation in establishing Open Access as the norm in scholarly communication. |
Information Today January 2005 Richard Poynder |
Interview with Vitek Tracz: Essential for Science Convinced that all research must ultimately be freely available on the Web, the chairman of the London-based Current Science Group has become a powerful advocate for open access. |
Information Today April 9, 2012 |
BioMed Central, LabArchives to Link Data Sets With Journal Articles Through a new collaboration, authors submitting articles to selected BioMed Central journals will be provided with complimentary subscriptions to an enhanced version of the popular LabArchives Electronic Laboratory Notebook software. |
Information Today October 31, 2013 |
LPC Debuts Library Publishing Directory The Library Publishing Coalition published the first edition of its Library Publishing Directory, which provides an overview of the publishing activities of 115 academic and research libraries. |
Information Today January 2004 Paula Hane |
The Latest Developments in Open Access, E-Books, and More Because of Online Information, it was a busy several weeks for news, despite the lull during the Thanksgiving holiday in the U.S. |
Information Today September 13, 2004 Barbara Quint |
NIH Requires Open Access for Its Funded Medical Research With the NIH's decision, the fast-paced open access movement has picked up even more momentum. |
Information Today May 27, 2014 Barbie E. Keiser |
How Will You Celebrate Open Access Week? International OA Week is an opportunity for the academic and research community to share what they've learned and to help inspire wider participation in helping to make OA a new norm in scholarship and research. |
Information Today July 23, 2007 |
House Approves Bill That Mandates NIH Public Access Policy The U.S. House of Representatives has approved a measure directing the NIH to provide free public online access to agency-funded research findings within 12 months of their publication in a peer-reviewed journal. |
Information Today March 22, 2004 Paula J. Hane |
U.K. Parliamentary Committee Holds Hearings on Scientific Publishing On March 1 and 8, the U.K. House of Commons Science and Technology Committee held the first two days of hearings as part of its inquiry into the pricing and availability of scientific publications and possible government support for open access publishing. |
Chemistry World August 22, 2006 Katharine Sanderson |
Open Access for Chemistry The team that developed BioMed Central, an open access publishing website, has launched a chemistry version called Chemistry Central. |
Information Today October 27, 2015 Abby Clobridge |
Open Access Week 2015: 'Open for Collaboration' Libraries, universities, research institutes, publishers, research funding agencies, and individual OA advocates used the opportunity to talk, tweet, and share thoughts, success stories, and lessons learned about OA, open data, and open education. |
D-Lib December 2008 Bonita Wilson |
Evolution in the Area of Digital Scholarly Communication Journal editors or librarians from 1958 would be amazed at the technology we have in 2008, but they would have no trouble recognizing the fundamentals of today's scholarly publications. |
D-Lib January 2004 Jonas Holmstrom |
The Cost per Article Reading of Open Access Articles The measure for calculating cost per reading (CPR) of journal articles is reviewed, and a way to adapt this measure to articles in open access journals is proposed. |
D-Lib February 2008 Datema et al. |
In Brief Getting the most out of your institutional repository... Science assets of the digital age at risk... Linus Pauling and the International Peace Movement: a documentary history... etc. |
Searcher February 2004 Barbara Quint |
The Great Divide A combination of forces is putting pressure on the information profession. Oddly enough, one of the pressure points is librarians themselves. |
Information Today December 29, 2003 Barbara Quint |
Elsevier to Close Three End-User Portals Elsevier plans to discontinue operation of its three end-user portals -- BioMedNet, ChemWeb, and ElsevierEngineering.com. Some current activities will migrate to the main Elsevier.com site, which may have some redesign. |
Information Today April 2004 Richard Poynder |
The Inevitable and the Optimal What measures are being taken in the U.K. government, the publishing industry, and academic institutions to ensure that researchers, teachers, and students have access to the publications they need? |
Information Today September 15, 2003 |
NewsBreaks PubMed to Gain OLDMEDLINE Citations... Communication Abstracts Now Available from CSA... SPARC Partners with New Labor Studies Journal... |
Information Today February 2003 Jim Ashling |
Sci-Tech Publishers Show Resiliency at Online Information 2002 The big sci-tech publishers and secondary services -- in particular, the not-for-profit and society publishers -- have remained remarkably resilient over the event's entire history. |
Reactive Reports Issue 67 David Bradley |
Reactive Profile--Bryan Vickery, Chemistry Central Having ruined too many pairs of jeans, this chemist opted for a desk job instead of a bench job. He is currently Publisher at BioMed Central with special interest in Chemistry Central. |
Information Today March 2003 Paula J. Hane |
NewsBreaks Update New developments in content licensing, open-access publishing, and more |
Chemistry World January 22, 2008 Rebecca Trager |
NIH Battles Publishers Over Open Access The NIH has published controversial new rules that is sparking a showdown with publishers, including the American Chemical Society. |
Chemistry World October 2, 2006 Gill & Sanderson |
RSC to Launch Open Access Hybrid Model In a move to keep RSC publishing competitive, authors of RSC journal papers can now choose to have their research freely available the moment it is published -- for a fee. |
Chemistry World July 16, 2014 Patrick Walter |
Royal Society of Chemistry's flagship journal now free to access Chemical Science will be free to access from January 2015, and author fees for publishing in the journal will be suspended until 2017. |
Geotimes November 2004 |
Open Access: Open Debate? Imagine any U.S. citizen having free and open access to research funded with tax dollars. That possibility could be closer to reality than ever before, but Congress must first address some important concerns |
Information Today September 2004 |
NewsBytes VNU Exhibitions Europe Acquires Library + information Show... SwetsWise Welcomes BioMed Central's Open-Access Journals...Thomson Study Reveals Weak Correlation Between Self-Citations and Impact Factor... etc. |