The entire November 2007  issue of the Journal of the American Dietetic Association  is freely available to anyone without a subscription in recognition of global hunger and poverty.

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“Sharing Detailed Research Data is Associated with Increased Citation Rate“ documents a study of cancer microarray clinical trial publications in which a correlation between publicly available microarray data and increased literature impact was found.

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Last night, the U.S. Senate approved the Bill that included a provision to change the current voluntary NIH Public Access Policy to mandatory by a 75 to 19 voting margin. For more details:  http://www.taxpayeraccess.org/media/release07-1024.html  and http://blogs.openaccesscentral.com/blogs/bmcblog/entry/mandate_for_open_access_to 

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The Senate is scheduled to vote on the FY’08 Labor-HHS bill on Monday 22 October (approved by the HR and the full Senate Appropriations Committee) that includes a provision to change the current voluntary NIH Public Access Policy to mandatory. On Friday 19 October, Senator Inhofe (R-OK) filed two amendments (3416 and 3417) which call for the [...]

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Citing Medicine: the NLM Style Guide for Authors, Editors and Publishers  is now available online. Citing Medicine contains examples of bibliographic references for published and unpublished material including blogs and wikis.

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wupubamendment.pdf 
What is the WU Amendment to Publication Agreement? The WU Amendment is a tool to allow authors to retain some rights to their work and is used as an addendum to a publisher’s copyright agreement. The WU Amendment enables authors to reuse their work (the final published version) for research and teaching efforts, allows for deposit [...]

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Interesting newsletter article from Elsevier on intellectual impact.
http://libraryconnect.elsevier.com/lcn/0503/lcn050302.html

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Taylor & Francis recently announced that their “iOpenAccess” option has been extended to cover 31 journals in environmental and agricultural sciences, behavioral sciences and development studies. This is in addition to the 175 journals from T&F’s Chemistry, Mathematics and Physics portfolios, seven behavioral science journals from Psychology Press, and medical and bioscience journals from Informa Healthcare.  [...]

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The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has expressed support for Springer’s Open Choice program whereby articles are immediately published with full open access and deposited in repositories such as PubMed Central, at a flat-rate fee per article of $3,000. Under the new policy, HHMI will pay up to $2,000 in open access charges per article with [...]

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New resource on copyright intended to “contribute to a broader understanding of the legal aspects of creative works of authorship, including their dissemination and use.” Created by Columbia University. http://keepyourcopyrights.org/about/us

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