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Chemistry World May 30, 2014 Hepeng Jia |
China plans 'green' open access future Thousands of Chinese papers published in top journals will have to freely accessible within a year of publication. |
Information Today November 25, 2014 Nancy K. Herther |
Paperity Hopes to Create a Comprehensive Index of Open Literature Paperity, "The first multidisciplinary aggregator of Open Access journals and papers," launched on Oct. 8. |
Chemistry World April 2012 |
Opening the Doors of Knowledge Should all journal articles be free to access online? |
Chemistry World June 11, 2015 Rebecca Trager |
Chemical sciences literature dominated by five publishing houses The percentage of chemistry papers published by the big five publishers is a significant outlier in the sciences. |
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. |
Chemistry World January 7, 2014 Maria Burke |
Scientific data disappearing at alarming rate As individual researchers are not preserving their data for posterity, there is a pressing need for tougher rules on data-sharing in public archives, the team concludes. |
Information Today May 2004 |
Letter to the Editor Accelerating the Transition to the Optimal and Inevitable: Commentary on open access to research. |
Information Today July 10, 2014 |
Europe PMC Gains New OA Research WHO (World Health Organization) announced an open access policy in January 2014 that now applies to all WHO research published in external books and journals. |
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. |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2014 Prost & Schopfel |
Degrees of Openness: Access Restrictions in Institutional Repositories Institutional repositories contain a growing number of items that are metadata without full text, metadata with full text only for authorized users, and items that are under embargo or that are restricted to on-campus access. |
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 February 2007 Miriam A. Drake |
Scholarly Communication in Turmoil Two leading experts provide some insight into scholarly publishing now and in the future. |
Chemistry World June 19, 2012 |
Finch report backs open access for UK This would allow more people free access to research publications than ever before. However, the report warns that it could cost UK higher education as much as an extra 50 -- 60 million pounds a year. |
Geotimes December 2005 Naomi Lubick |
Open Access Wide Open Open-access publishing has been heralded both as the savior of scientific literature and the death of publishing, but after less than a decade of the practice, its impact remains uncertain. |
Information Today July 31, 2008 |
Scopus Adds More Preprint Research Abstracts Scopus AiP abstracts are citable and precede the final published, printed version by up to 4 months, significantly accelerating the knowledge discovery process for researchers. |
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. |
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. |
Chemistry World February 2007 Richard Van Noorden |
Computers Learn Chemistry Chemists who trawl through the thousands of chemistry papers published every month must wish their computers could do the job for them. Well, maybe one day they will. |
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 13, 2012 |
Summon Discovery Service Expands Coverage of Open Access Scholarly Content Making these resources accessible through the library discovery interface broadens the number of highly relevant and appropriate results returned to researchers, while further making the library the "go-to" resource for credible content. |
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. |
D-Lib April 2004 Jonas Holmstrom |
The Return on Investment of Electronic Journals - It Is a Matter of Time Author argues using download statistics to measure cost-effectiveness may be misleading, and offers recommendations for standards of measurement. |
Information Today July 2, 2001 Robin Peek |
Current Science Group, Elsevier Science Offer New Science Services In an effort to demonstrate that publishers can be just as nimble and creative as new efforts like PubMed, two of them have just announced new services for scientists... |
Chemistry World September 2, 2013 Derek Lowe |
The never-ending story If you get chemists in a confessional frame of mind, they'll probably tell you that they really don't read the current journals as well as they ought to. |
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... |
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. |
Information Today October 2001 George H. Pike |
Legal Issues - Understanding and Surviving Tasini The litigation over the Tasini ruling indicates that the issues raised by the court are anything but resolved. So how do we in both the database and the library communities survive in the interim? |
Information Today January 20, 2011 |
PRG Publishes 'The Survey of Library Database Licensing Practices' The 115-page report looks closely at how 70 academic, special, and public libraries in the U.S., the U.K., continental Europe, Canada, and Australia plan their database licensing practices. |
Information Today June 23, 2003 Robin Peek |
NLM Proposes New Journal Standards The Journal Archiving and Interchange Document Type Definition (JAIDTD) is freely available for public use and creates a standard that, if broadly adopted, could signal a significant sea change in the future of scholarly journals. |
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 July 18, 2012 Maria Burke |
EU and UK bitten by the open access bug The European commission plans to make all the research findings funded by its 80 billion euro 2014 -- 2020 research program, Horizon 2020, accessible to all. |
Information Today April 4, 2011 |
Copyright Clearance Center Launches Get It Now for Academic Institutions The service complements academic institutions' interlibrary loan (ILL) borrowing services by providing immediate fulfillment of full-text articles from unsubscribed journals 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. |
Information Today February 22, 2011 |
Google Introduces Google One Pass for Purchasing Digital Content With Google One Pass, publishers can maintain direct relationships with their customers and give readers access to digital content across websites and mobile apps. |
Chemistry World December 7, 2015 Emma Stoye |
Royal Society backs ORCID to identify researchers The UK's Royal Society has announced that from January 2016 it will require all researchers submitting papers to its journals to provide an Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID). |
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? |
Information Today February 7, 2011 |
Wiley Launches New Program of Open Access Journals The first journals will launch shortly, publishing primary peer-reviewed research in a range of broad-based subject disciplines in the life and biomedical sciences. |
Searcher May 2004 Miriam A. Drake |
Institutional Repositories Hidden Treasures Librarians are taking leadership roles in planning and building repositories now being created to manage, preserve, and maintain the digital assets, intellectual output, and histories of institutions. |
Information Today September 5, 2000 Barbara Quint |
CrossRef, CAS, DataStar Announce Links to Scholarly Publications The network of links to and from scholarly publications continues to grow rapidly... |
D-Lib May/Jun 2007 Arthur Sale |
A Challenge for the Library Acquisition Budget Libraries have traditionally supported researchers as readers, but not as authors. It is desirable for the future of libraries, and for the future of research in their institutions, that libraries become engaged in this crucial step in the research process. |
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2014 Knoth et al. |
Guest Editorial A significant proportion of the new approaches presented in this issue address a wide range of problems in extracting structured information, and even detailed semantics, from research papers. |
Information Today March 13, 2008 |
Scopus TopCited Highlights Key Articles The Scopus search application programming interface (API) technology has enabled the launch of Scopus TopCited, a new website that offers users the top 20 cited articles across 26 subject areas. |
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. |
Reactive Reports Issue 62 David Bradley |
Robert Parker The appointed Managing Director of Royal Society of Chemistry Publishing discusses the future of chemistry publishing |
T.H.E. Journal May 2005 Kathleen E. Joswick |
Electronic Full-Text Journal Articles: Convenience or Compromise Educators must understand and communicate the scope and limitations of full-text databases in order to enable their students to become contentious consumers of electronic information. |
Information Today June 9, 2008 Nancy Herther |
Elsevier Releases Scopus Journal Analyzer Subscribers to Elsevier's Scopus have a new tool to aid in evaluating journal performance over time. |
Information Today October 15, 2001 Gail Dykstra |
Canadian Court Rules in Favor of Freelance Authors For anyone interested in copyright, electronic databases, and freelance writers, there's a new Canadian decision you should know about that promises to be a landmark case... |
ONLINE Jul/Aug 2009 Stephanie Bianchi |
Peerless Pathways to Find Peer Reviewers A workshop was offered to all new program officers at NSF on how to use standard library resources to quickly and easily find and evaluate possible peer reviewers, even if the subject area was unfamiliar. |
Information Today December 15, 2015 Abby Clobridge |
Introducing Meta: Where Big Science Meets Scientific Publishing All of Meta's services are created around its machine intelligence platform, which reads more than 19 million full-text articles, the entirety of PubMed, and continuously crawls the web to identify all of the people and entities mentioned in the literature. |
Chemistry World November 9, 2015 Rebecca Trager |
Innovation in biomedical chemistry found wanting The pressure for researchers to publish or perish appears to be harming innovation in biomedicine and chemistry, according to research spearheaded by sociologist Jacob Foster from the University of California, Los Angeles |
Information Today December 6, 2010 |
European Commission Debuts OpenAIRE It is expected that EU researchers, businesses, and citizens will have free and open access to EU-funded research papers. |