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Information Today March 5, 2009 |
New Reports Journals From Faculty of 1000 The expert-driven article evaluation services Faculty of 1000 Biology and Faculty of 1000 Medicine are each launching a journal to complement their service. |
Information Today August 2006 Robin Peek |
The Impact of Open Choice The findings of a study released last month reveal that articles that are published by the author-pays open access approach are cited more often than those that are published in the same journal and that are publicly released 6 months after publication. |
Information Today February 23, 2012 |
New F1000 App Helps Researchers Explore Content in Elsevier's SciVerse Faculty of 1000, an online service that selects and evaluates articles based on the opinions of global leaders in biology and medicine, announced the launch of a new application that helps researchers explore the scientific content in Elsevier's SciVerse platform. |
D-Lib Sep/Oct 2014 Heidi Zuniga |
The Role of a Digital Repository in a Library-Managed Open Access Fund Program This article discusses the development of an open access author fund at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus Health Sciences Library and the subsequent partnership with the library's digital repository, in which the articles supported by the fund were added to the repository. |
Bio-IT World February 10, 2003 Kevin Davies |
Library Science Can the obscene costs of subscriptions to specialty journals be justified? |
D-Lib October 2005 Yvonne Hultman Ozek |
Lund Virtual Medical Journal Makes Self-Archiving Attractive and Easy for Authors The importance of communication and collaboration with units outside the library to make self-archiving attractive to authors. |
Information Today November 19, 2013 |
F1000 Announces Data-Plotting Tool Anyone publishing an article in F1000Research is required to make research data publicly available with the article. F1000's new tool helps streamline the data peer-review process. |
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 August 31, 2009 Barbara Quint |
PLoS Currents Uses Google Knol Collections Feature for Swine Flu Reports The Public Library of Science has launched a new experimental service called PLoS Currents, which is designed to support quick turnaround among scientists on hot research topics. |
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. |
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2010 Donald W. King |
An Approach to Open Access Author Payment This article discusses a few of the favorable and unfavorable issues with Open Access through author payment and proposes an approach that takes advantage of the favorable aspects and overcomes some of the unfavorable ones. |
Chemistry World April 2012 |
Opening the Doors of Knowledge Should all journal articles be free to access online? |
D-Lib June 2004 Donald W. King |
Should Commercial Publishers Be Included in the Model for Open Access through Author Payment? If open access by author payment is in fact an optimum model, there must be some way to demonstrate it other than by the trickle approach now taking place. |
D-Lib December 2008 Tenopir & King |
Electronic Journals and Changes in Scholarly Article Seeking and Reading Patterns Electronic journals have resulted in a narrowing of scientific citation patterns. |
Bio-IT World Jul/Aug 2006 Kevin Davies |
Science Publishing and the Web Several technologies are poised to radically change the ability of scientists to share data and develop ideas both within and between organizations: Nature Network Boston... PLoS ONE... |
Information Today October 2004 Richard Poynder |
Poynder On Point: Ten Years After A decade after professor Stevan Harnad posted what he called a "subversive proposal" to the Electronic Journals mailing list at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, open access (OA) is now threatening to overturn the $6 billion scholarly publishing industry and is forcing even the largest publishers against the ropes. |
Search Engine Watch February 14, 2006 Mary Ellen Bates |
Finding Articles Online When looking for magazine or journal articles search engines can be helpful, but other specialized search tools are often a better bet -- particularly in the academic, scholarly and sci-tech areas. |
Information Today December 30, 2002 |
NewsBreaks Weekly News Digest Yahoo! to Acquire Inktomi... Nstein and Gale Announce Partnership... AIP Offers Free Bibliographic Search Service... Public Library of Science Announces New Journals |
D-Lib February 2009 |
To the Editor (January/February 2009) Tenopir & King's confirmation of the finding that as more articles become accessible, more articles are indeed accessed (and read), but fewer articles are cited (and those are cited more) is best explained by the increased selectivity made possible by that increased accessibility |
Information Today February 2002 Dick Kaser |
Ghost in a Bottle The ghost is out of the bottle. That's how Derk Haank describes the current situation in which the authors of scientific papers are taking an increasing interest in who publishes them.... |
Information Today July 7, 2003 Miriam. A. Drake |
Free Public Access to Science -- Will It Happen? If Congressman Martin Sabo of Minnesota has his way, the results of federally funded research in science and medicine will be available freely to all. |
Information Today November 15, 2012 Abby Clobridge |
Berlin 10 Open Access Conference Recap As open access and other "open" movements become more of a part of the mainstream consciousness, conversations surrounding OA continue to evolve. How do we move past the legacies of the print publication world and what is a journal in today's environment? |
Information Today August 23, 2012 |
Reproducibility Initiative to Increase the Value of Biomedical Research Science Exchange, in partnership with open access publisher PLOS and open data repository figshare, announced the launch of the Reproducibility Initiative. |
D-Lib May 2003 Tenopir et al. |
Patterns of Journal Use by Scientists through Three Evolutionary Phases This article provides some evidence of how scientists' information seeking and reading patterns are affected by using journals in three system phases. |
ONLINE Mar/Apr 2005 David Stern |
Open Access or Differential Pricing for Journals: The Road Best Traveled? The adoption of the OA model for journals will create serious instabilities within the existing scholarly publication industry. |
Information Today August 27, 2007 Paula J. Hane |
PLoS and Partners Offer Video Communications With SciVee SciVee lets scientists communicate their works as multimedia presentations incorporated with the content of their published articles. |
Information Today January 10, 2005 |
Weekly News Digest Info Pros Join Tsunami Relief Effort... Tsunami Lecture Available Through Supercourse... PLoS Announces New Community OA Journals... |
Information Today June 9, 2011 |
Announcing the New PLoS Search API By opening up its content and data through this API, PLoS hopes to encourage the development of more tools that will improve the way PLoS users discover and interact with its content, as well as their own. |
Information Today January 14, 2013 |
F1000Research Launches Following Successful Beta-Testing Phase Launching on a new publishing platform, F1000Research is F1000's new Open Science publishing program for life scientists, offering researchers for the first time immediate publication, transparent and fast peer-review post-publication, and full data deposition and sharing. |
Information Today November 2004 Richard Poynder |
Poynder On Point: No Gain Without Pain How are publishers responding to the open acess (OA) movement, and can it really deliver on its promise? More importantly, can it reduce library costs? |
D-Lib Jan/Feb 2012 David Shotton |
The Five Stars of Online Journal Articles -- a Framework for Article Evaluation I propose five factors -- peer review, open access, enriched content, available datasets and machine-readable metadata -- as the Five Stars of Online Journal Articles. |
Wired June 2006 Jamie Shreeve |
Free Radical Harold Varmus won a Nobel Prize for changing how we think about cancer. Then he overhauled the NIH. Now he's battling publishers to make all scientific research free and universally available. |
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 February 18, 2002 Richard Poynder |
George Soros Gives $3 Million to New Open Access Initiative A new initiative to help provide free access to refereed articles on the Internet has received $3 million in funding from financier and philanthropist George Soros' Open Society Institute... |
Chemistry World December 2007 Dylan Stiles |
Column: Bench Monkey Increased costs make students choose between a chemistry journal subscription and car insurance. |
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2011 Castellucci & Giglia |
OAI7 - CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication The spirit of the meeting is sharing best practices, experiences and ideas, as well as connecting people and creating new possibilities for the achievement of "openness" within national and international institutions. |
Information Today August 2004 |
NewsBytes LexisNexis, Biz360 Form Alliance... Marketresearch.com Opens London Office... Ohio Academic Libraries Support PloS... ABC-CLIO, Ingenta Announce Linking Partnership... IEEE Adds New Members to Advisory Council... etc. |
Information Today December 2004 Paula Hane |
The Latest on Ingenta, Scopus, OA, and More IngentaConnect Launch... Scopus Finally Launches... Open Access... Search News Roundup... Digital Archive of Americana Launched... Content Additions... Links... |
Reason October 2007 Ronald Bailey |
Is Industry-Funded Science Killing You? The overrated risks and underrated benefits of pharmaceutical research "conflicts of interest." |