The Royal Society has announced the launch of Open Biology, a new open access journal.
The Royal Society has announced the launch of Open Biology, a new open access journal.
The Faculty Senate at Washington University in St. Louis recently adopted an Open Access Resolution that encourages faculty members to make their scholarly and creative works freely available online. Open Access Resolution statement by the Faculty Senate. “Faculty Senate Adopts Open Access Resolution” article in the Washington University Record.
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Washington University Danforth Campus (WU) and the Medical School Campus (WUSM) members have access to journal titles published by open access publishers such as BioMed Central and PLoS (Public Library of Science). Publishing in open access journals usually requires an author publication fee to offset the cost of publication, and in some instances, publishers will [...]
What is open access? Open access literally means access to scholarly publications, open to all and at no cost to the reader. Accessibility underlies the fundamental premise that the world will benefit more when everyone can read and use scientific research results – not only those who can afford to. Digital publication across the Internet [...]
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Interested in publishing an open access journal? If so, review this new guide: The Online Guide to Open Access Journals Publishing. “The Online Guide to Open Access Journals Publishing is a web-based, living document that allows users to navigate quickly to specific areas of interest. Each chapter contains links to additional resources on the same topic [...]
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The November 2008 issue of Genome Technology contains a series of articles on open access. Ready or Not, Here Comes Open Access Sure, you’d rather focus on science than on debates about open access. But the decisions made today about publishing models are relevant not only to your work, but also to the future of [...]
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Since 2001, the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) has provided free access to original research articles six months after publication to users who registered on the NEJM website. Effective as of 10 December 2007, registration is no longer required in order to access the original research articles six months after publication. Full text articles on [...]
The revised guidelines for the NIH Public Access Policy (NOT-OD-08-033) are now available: Revised Policy on Enhancing Public Access to Archived Publications Resulting from NIH-Funded Research. Compliance with this Policy is a statutory requirement and a term and condition of the grant award and cooperative agreement, in accordance with the NIH Grants Policy Stat ement [...]
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Nature recently announced that genome papers will now be licensed under a “Creative Commons” license to “. . . encourage research and development and to maximise its benefit to society.”
On 26 December 2007 President Bush signed the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2007 (H.R. 2764) which includes language that will change the current NIH Public Access Policy from voluntary to mandatory. The policy, when implemented by NIH, will require all manuscripts (the post print version) generated by NIH-funded research be deposited into PubMed Central, the National Library [...]
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