The European Commission recently announced a new pilot program that allows for unrestricted access to EU-funded research results after an embargo period between six to 12 months. From the press release: “The Commission’s open access pilot, to run until the end of FP7, aims to ensure that the results from EU-funded research are progressively made available [...]
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What is a comprehensive literature search? How to know when you’ve exhausted the literature? Questions to ask . . . · Do your research results provide a clear chain of evidence in demonstrating the accumulation of knowledge on a particular topic? · Did you find the first description or research of a particular topic? · [...]
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The American Library Association’s Office for Information Technology Policy recently created a slide-rule to help determine if a particular work is copyright protected. Pointing the red arrow to the date of first publication of the work provides information on the copyright status of the work.
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Canada’s Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) recently enacted a new policy, Policy on Access to Research Outputs, effective as of January 2008 that requires all research papers generated from CIHR funded projects to be freely accessible through publishers’ websites or an online repository within six months of publication. At this time there is no [...]
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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 [...]
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