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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. |
Chemistry World March 2, 2012 Rebecca Trager |
Anti-open access bill suffers sudden death Legislation in the US Congress that would have stopped funding agencies stipulating that research they fund with taxpayer dollars be made publicly available has collapsed. The dramatic development could signal a pivotal shift in scientific publishing. |
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... |
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. |
Chemistry World April 2012 |
Opening the Doors of Knowledge Should all journal articles be free to access online? |
Information Today February 25, 2013 Abby Clobridge |
U.S. Takes Huge Step Forward in Opening Access to Publicly Funded Research During a flurry of announcements over the past 2 weeks, the world has watched as two major developments were launched from the U.S. federal government that will open access to articles produced as a result of grant funding from key U.S. agencies. |
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.... |
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 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. |
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 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 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 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 23, 2013 Abby Clobridge |
Dialogue Over Public Access to Scholarly Publications Continues in the U.S. The conversation surrounding OA and public access today is vastly different from 5 years ago when the NIH policy was passed. The conversation in general has shifted from whether OA is a good thing to how to best implement it |
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. |
Bio-IT World February 10, 2003 Kevin Davies |
Library Science Can the obscene costs of subscriptions to specialty journals be justified? |
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 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. |
D-Lib April 2001 |
To the Editor In response to the opinion piece, The Librarians' Dilemma: Contemplating the Costs of the "Big Deal"... |
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. |
Information Today December 2002 Richard Poynder |
A True Market Failure Professor Mark McCabe, an expert in mergers and anticompetitive practices at the Georgia Institute of Technology, talks about problems in the scientific, technical, and medical (STM) publishing industry. |
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 May 8, 2006 Robin Peek |
The Federal Research Public Access Act of 2006 The Federal Research Public Access Act of 2006 would require that agencies with research budgets of more than $100 million enact policy to ensure that articles generated through research funded by that agency are made available online within 6 months of publication. |
Information Today September 2004 Richard Poynder |
Interview: Put Up or Shut Up Derk Haank, Springer's new CEO (and former chairman of Elsevier Science), discusses his plans for the company, scientific, technical, and medical (STM) journal pricing, the Big Deal, and open access. |
Information Today October 7, 2002 |
News Digest CrossRef Launches Version 2.0, Expands Membership... Infotrieve Signs Two STM Aggregators, 10 Publishers... EBSCO Increases Links to JSTOR, Adds Access to Elsevier Content |
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 September 3, 2002 Miriam A. Drake |
Elsevier Teams with Dutch National Library for Digitization Project Elsevier Science and Koninklijke Bibliotheek, the National Library of the Netherlands, have announced an agreement that designates KB as the first official digital archive for Elsevier journals. |
ONLINE Jul/Aug 2011 Vera Munch |
Open Access: Shaking the Basics of Academic Publishing Although open access is not a new concept, the all-embracing structural upheaval caused by digital technology is still turning academic publishing upside down. |
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... |
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 Richard Poynder |
U.K. Academics and Librarians Disagree Over Open Access Publishing At an April U.K. Parliament Science and Technology Select Committee session, librarians and academics disagreed with one another over excessive journal pricing, inflexibility over the "bundling" of electronic journals, inequitable copyright agreements, and restrictions on long-term access to digital material. |
Information Today June 7, 2004 Robin Peek |
Elsevier Allows Open Access Self-Archiving In a move that has stunned both the publishing community and the academic world, major journal publisher Elsevier is going to permit Open Access self-archiving for almost all of its journal titles. |
Information Today April 15, 2013 Barbara Brynko |
Elsevier Acquires Mendeley For some industry onlookers, the news that Elsevier acquired Mendeley in early April came as no surprise. But the initial rumors in late December/early January about the possible sale shook the foundations of the research community. |
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 November 4, 2002 Richard Poynder |
Kluwer Academic Publishers Sold to Venture Capitalists Dutch publisher Wolters Kluwer has announced the sale of Kluwer Academic Publishers (KAP) to London-based private equity funds Candover and Cinven for approximately $591 million. |
Information Today November 6, 2000 Paula J. Hane |
Reed Elsevier, Thomson Negotiate Two-Step Deal to Buy Harcourt General Anglo-Dutch publisher Reed Elsevier will buy U.S. rival Harcourt General, Inc. for $4.5 billion, and then will sell the college textbook division and other assets---including a large part of the corporate and professional division---to Canadian publishing rival The Thomson Corp... |
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... |
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. |
Information Today April 2002 Richard Poynder |
Not Pleading Poverty Elsevier Science chairman Derk Haank addresses industry and end-user issues... |
Information Today September 22, 2008 Robin Peek |
Fair Copyright in Research Works Act Challenges Federal Funding Some publishers are fighting the national Institutes of Health legislation that requires federally funded research to be made available through PubMed Central. |
Information Today September 11, 2006 |
Weekly News Digest EBSCO Announces Partners for Journal Access... More Support for Federal Research Public Access Act... Evidence Matters Adds New Disease Modules... |
Information Today October 2004 Barbara Quint |
Up Front with Barbara Quint: Future of the NIH Open Access Policy Basically, the NIH, funder of at least a quarter of the world's best medical research, will mandate that all grantees and contractors submit electronic copies of finished manuscripts for full-text release through PubMed Central, the National Library of Medicine's popular medical research site. |
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 April 30, 2001 Richard Poynder |
The Debate Heats Up Are Reed Elsevier and Thomson Corp. Monopolists? |
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 January 6, 2015 Abby Clobridge |
Open Access 2014: 4Q News Roundup The open access movement continued to chalk up a number of key victories -- and faced an unexpected curveball along the way. |
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. |
Information Today March 17, 2015 Richard Huffine |
Distinctions Emerge in U.S. Government Plans for Expanding Access to Research Research funded by the U.S. government is finally going to be available for anyone to read and cite, based on plans laid out by the agencies that administer the funding |
Information Today May 24, 2012 |
ProQuest and Elsevier Health Expand Medical Licensing Agreement ProQuest and Elsevier Health are expanding their long-standing relationship for licensing of the Lancet family of medical journals to include 36 additional health science titles from Elsevier in ProQuest's information products. |