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Bio-IT World
February 10, 2003
Kevin Davies |
Library Science Can the obscene costs of subscriptions to specialty journals be justified?   |
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
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. |
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... |
Chemistry World
April 2012 |
Opening the Doors of Knowledge Should all journal articles be free to access online? |
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. |
Geotimes
August 2006
Carolyn Gramling |
Open Access Advancing One year after the NIH began to encourage researchers to make their findings freely available online, two U.S. senators introduced a new bill to Congress that proposes to both toughen and expand that open-access policy to include most federally funded research. |
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
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 |
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... |
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
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. |
HHMI Bulletin
Aug 2011
Robert Tjian |
President's Letter: Journal: Scientists at the Heart Journal aims to publish the highest-quality research across the full spectrum of the life sciences. |
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. |
Chemistry World
July 4, 2011
Andy Extance |
Funders Unveil 'Elite' Open Access Journal The Wellcome Trust, the Max Planck Society and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute are set to launch an open access research journal that will attempt to compete directly for submissions with Cell, Nature and Science. |
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
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. |
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. |
HHMI Bulletin
Aug 2011 |
HHMI Teams Up for Open Access Journal HHMI, the Max Planck Society, and the Wellcome Trust intend to launch an open-access journal for biomedical and life sciences research that breaks the mold set by traditional scientific journals. |
D-Lib
Sep/Oct 2010
Changqing & Xiaodong |
Development Strategy for High-Quality Science and Technology Journals in China The Ministry of Science and Technology of China has planned and executed a development strategy for high-quality ST journals in order to advance the international competitive capacity of China's journals. |
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... |
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
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
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 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.... |
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. |
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. |
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 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
March 7, 2012
Mico Tatalovic |
Croatia to slim down funding for science journals Science journals in Croatia face an uncertain future, with their main funder, the science ministry, announcing changes that will see only the best journals funded. |
Information Today
September 21, 2009
Robin Peek |
A Compact for Open Access Publication Announced Open-access publishing promises to put more research in more hands and in more places around the world. This is a good enough reason for universities to embrace the guiding principles of this compact. |
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
December 2007
Dylan Stiles |
Column: Bench Monkey Increased costs make students choose between a chemistry journal subscription and car insurance. |
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 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 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. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
June 1, 2005
Joanna Breitstein |
Turn the Page Changes in ethics and expectations are driving the way pharma interacts with medical publishers. |
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. |
Chemistry World
February 19, 2015
Francois-Xavier Coudert |
Setting the record straight It is every scientist's duty to add knowledge to this record, but also to safeguard its integrity by checking that others' work is reproducible. |
Information Today
April 10, 2006
Robin Peek |
European Commission Releases Key Scientific Publishing Report The European Commission has finally released its report on scientific publishing and now has firmly placed itself in the international discussion of where such publishing should go in the future. |
Wired
November 2003
Thomas Goetz |
Open Source Everywhere Software is just the beginning ... open source is doing for mass innovation what the assembly line did for mass production. Get ready for the era when collaboration replaces the corporation. |
Chemistry World
January 31, 2013
Mico Tatalovic |
Citation cartel uncovered in Bosnian journals A Serbian study claims to have uncovered a 'citation cartel' in which two Bosnian journals listed by Web of Science and Journal Citation Reports are practicing an alarming level of misconduct with substantial involvement of large groups of authors from Serbia. |
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
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... |
D-Lib
June 2003
Bonthron et al. |
Trends in Use of Electronic Journals in Higher Education in the UK - Views of Academic Staff and Students This article examines disciplinary differences in the use of electronic journals by academic staff and students and considers whether library services need to differentiate between staff and students when planning support services for electronic journals. |
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. |
Chemistry World
September 29, 2014
Derek Lowe |
Garbage in, garbage out Evaluating scientists is not easy. That's always been the case, and the shortcuts to doing it have been around a long time too. Counting papers and conferences is easy, but stupid. |
Information Today
January 26, 2009 |
Nature Publishing Group Expands Open Access Choices Nature Publishing Group is expanding open access choices for authors in 2009, through both "green" self-archiving and "gold" (authors-pays) open access publication routes. |
D-Lib
October 2002
Montgomery & King |
Comparing Library and User Related Costs of Print and Electronic Journal Collections The results suggest that, when all costs are considered, electronic journals are more cost effective on a per use basis. |
Information Today
November 17, 2003
Paula J. Hane |
Cornell and Other University Libraries to Cancel Elsevier Titles Cornell University Library has posted a list of about 200 Elsevier journal titles it is canceling for 2004. Harvard University says it is preparing for similar cuts in its Elsevier subscriptions. It's journal renewal time and the strain of the tough decision making is evident. |
