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 [...]

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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 Statement For Contracts.
Specifics:
 1. [...]

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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.”

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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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Interesting manuscript by Steven Harnad that discusses the importance of open access for biomedical research findings. Abstract:
The ethical case for Open Access (OA) (free online access) to research findings is especially salient when it is public health that is being compromised by needless access restrictions. But the ethical imperative for OA is far more general: It [...]

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WU authors who publish in a BioMed Central journal are entitled to a 15% discount on article processing fees. Among the benefits of publishing in a BioMed Central journal include rapid publication, high visibility, inclusion in PubMed, SCOPUS, Google, and PubMed Central, and no space constraints for your work.  An added benefit for authors is that the [...]

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Ear and Hearing recently announced that it will allow authors to comply with policies set forth by funding agencies that stipulate that publications generated by agency-funded research be publicly available.  Authors who publish in Ear and Hearing can submit their post-print (the author’s final version that reflects changes made as a result of the peer review process) to an [...]

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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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