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Entries from January 2010

My NCBI: Managing Compliance with the NIH Public Access Policy Using My Bibliography

January 27th, 2010 · No Comments

A new tool in MyNCBI  to assist NIH-funded authors was announced yesterday:
“A new feature now available in My Bibliography facilitates the management of publication compliance with the National Institutes of Health (NIH)Public Access Policy. From the new Awards View, eRA Commons users are able to see whether their publications are compliant with the Policy, start the [...]

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Tags: NIH Public Access Policy

Discovering Synergistic Qualities of Published Authors to Enhance Translational Research

January 26th, 2010 · No Comments

Review this interesting study by Bahr and Cohen that investigated the synergistic features of published researchers at the Oregon Clinical and Translational Research Institute (OCTRI) to see how scientists with different specializations could work together to improve translational research.

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Tags: Collaboration · Dissemination of Research · Enhancement of Research

PubMed Central Canada

January 11th, 2010 · No Comments

The newest addition to thePubMed Central (PMC) International effort, PubMed Central Canada, is now publicly available. PMC Canada is the result of a three-way collaborative effort by the National Library of Medicine®, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), and the National Research Council’s Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (NRC-CISTI).
Full Announcement

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Tags: Digital Repositories · Public Access Mandates · Research Data

reBlog from Michael Clarke under: The Scholarly Kitchen

January 8th, 2010 · No Comments

I found this interesting blog posting:
The next decade is likely to bring more change to scientific publishing than the decade that just ended. However, it will likely continue to be incremental change that builds on the existing infrastructure rather than destroying it. It will be change that puts pressure on publishers to become even more [...]

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Tags: Dissemination of Research · Economics of Scholarly Resources · Publishing Models