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Selected OA news items noted during August 2010

August 31, 2010 at 11:05 pm · Filed under Open Access ·Tagged OA news

RT @infopeep: Salo, Dorothea: Escaping Datageddon: comments, please [August 31] http://bit.ly/aCodto
RT @lescarr: More on the relationship between Mendeley and Repositories [August 28] http://bit.ly/9oNJE0
Richard Poynder on the first Panton Discussion (about open data) [August 27] http://bit.ly/b2aztr
RT @DigitalKoans: Share the Data: Making Large-Scale Proteomics Data Widely Available [August 26] http://icio.us/0wyjgg
UKPMC provides WoS citation counts [August 21] http://bit.ly/aQJbQq
How Science Is Rediscovering “Open” And What It Means For Government (about open data) [August 19] http://bit.ly/ccQyrJ
The Open Access movement (emphasis on arXiv as a success story) [August 17] http://bit.ly/9i8zoP
Innovations for Global Health Equity: Beyond Open Access towards Open Data [August 16] http://bit.ly/8ZnidL
BMJ Open – launching autumn 2010 (data sharing emphasized) [August 16] http://bit.ly/dg5jPC
Summary: Hearing on Public Access to Federally Funded Research [August 15] http://bit.ly/cOSqTo
Open Medicine has been accepted into MEDLINE [August 13] http://blog.openmedicine.ca/node/278
UPEI’s cancellation of WOS getting attention (CBC & Toronto Star) [August 11] http://ow.ly/2nCqM & http://tinyurl.com/2ej5v7c
Heather Piwowar‘s reading lists (on Mendeley) about data sharing and re-use [August 5] http://bit.ly/9adW4l
Why I want everything OA, right now [August 5] http://wp.me/p4g7f-37
CoLab’s Open Source Science web app now live [August 5] http://bit.ly/9j2Akh
Which journal should I submit my paper to? An economic analysis of the options [August 5] http://bit.ly/cpCrxw
Find the future at a 21st-century science library: Charlotte Observer [August 3] http://bit.ly/anK02h

Selected OA news items noted during July 2010

August 1, 2010 at 12:19 am · Filed under Open Access ·Tagged OA news

JMIR ALMs now include citations from Scopus and Google Scholar (plus views & tweets) [July 31] http://bit.ly/aNo1OE
American Physical Society (APS) Online Journals Available Free in U.S. Public Libraries [July 30] http://j.mp/90TXsA
RT @mgeist: Univ of Ottawa Press launches open access book collection: 36 titles freely available under OA [July 29] http://bit.ly/bThuoN
(More on JMIR experiment with ALMs) [July 27] Top articles http://bit.ly/9NzqNe & most tweeted articles including Tweets Influence Factor http://bit.ly/9UZs9C
Perspective from UCSF on the NIH public access policy [July 24] http://bit.ly/b27zwt
A growing movement to ditch traditional publishing? [July 24] http://bit.ly/boJQJ0
Unlocking the Door (importance of OA in improving cancer communication) [July 23] via: http://ff.im/o9FGL
About the Open Notes project: description and commentary [July 21] http://twurl.nl/xlpox1 & http://twurl.nl/k8qw05
Article-Level Metrics: JMIR experiment [July 21] http://bit.ly/avrAt2 Most-viewed articles: http://bit.ly/dsWLTI
Open Access in Canada: A Strong Beginning [July 18] http://bit.ly/axCiNa
More on predatory OA (from Jeffrey Beal and the Charleston Advisor) [July 17] http://bit.ly/bqD5Nj
CBC notes open access requested via Canada’s digital economy consultation [July 15] http://tiny.cc/sdk0t
MELIBEA provides a ‘directory and validator’ of open access policies [July 15] http://bit.ly/cbski5
Southern Illinois University memo re UC protest against NPG [July 15] http://bit.ly/a0pikK
Open Letter to the Chronicle of Higher Education from the Canadian Research Knowledge Network [July 13] http://bit.ly/aQD10k
Global open access slowly growing, study finds – SciDev.Net [July 13] http://bit.ly/9KyHRG
Restricting access to publications from funded research: Ethical issues and solutions [July 10] http://bit.ly/9k8eZq
Liked: Science 2.0 (change will happen …) [July 9] http://bit.ly/dddtw4
RT @brembs: Liked “It’s not information overload, nor is it filter failure: It’s a discovery deficit” [July 8] http://ff.im/npKY1
Are the Creative Commons Licences Valid? [July 7] http://bit.ly/cMtdPX
Heart and Stroke Foundation Open access to research outputs policy: Guidelines [July 3] http://bit.ly/bfJn7f
Open access publishing & open peer review (about the Journal of Medical Internet Research) [July 2] http://bit.ly/bhFMt6

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Selected OA news items noted during June 2010

June 30, 2010 at 11:24 pm · Filed under Open Access ·Tagged OA news

RT @RSocPublishing: We have removed the 12 month embargo on author deposit of post-prints in repositories [June 29] http://bit.ly/9FF8hW
Impact of Open Access on stem cell research: An author co-citation analysis [June 28] http://bit.ly/cJmpnk
Biomedical Fields Prefer Their Open Access in Journals [June 28] http://bit.ly/93DjiG
One fifth of 2008’s research papers now open access [June 25] http://ff.im/-mHFx4
UKPMC Beta service moves into production [June 23] http://bit.ly/aWckqQ
Heather Morrison’s “OpenAccess submission to Canada’s Digital Economy Consultation” [June 21] http://bit.ly/a8zRHH
Canadian University UPEI cancels Web of Science due to 120% price increase & thinks about alternatives [June 21] http://bit.ly/cRxEGe
Falling demand of OUP’s open access model deserves closer examination [June 20] http://bit.ly/art8O0
PLoS ONE impact factor is 4.351. Can we stop talking about it now? [June 19]. More about 2009 IFs, via: http://ff.im/mlQDl
See @NatureNews metrics special [Editorial and 3 Features are OA] [June 17] http://bit.ly/c4WfuQ
Evidence for Genomic Applications (new OA journal cf. PloS Currents: Influenza) [June 16] http://bit.ly/cqieq5
NASA and data sharing norms [June 16] http://bit.ly/9sfmap
RT @openbiomed: Nature Publishing Group – Dark Side, Light Side [June 15] http://bit.ly/bVI8cG
Is the Traditional Publishing Industry Becoming Obsolete? [June 15] http://bit.ly/bcI1qA
The Tree of Life: Scooped in a good way by my own brother re Nature-UC dispute [June 14] http://bit.ly/bLUBD8
Cameron Neylon on the thinking behind @BioMedCentral‘s Open Data award [June 13] http://bit.ly/cBQakI
Open and Shut?: Reed Elsevier: Need for a progressive divestiture? [June 11] http://bit.ly/9uHzRO
Metrics of use: How to align researcher incentives with outcomes (Cameron Neylon) [June 9] http://bit.ly/baOO6s
UC Tries Just Saying No to Rising Journal Prices –may boycott Nature Group journals [June 9] http://bit.ly/9ZTB8p

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Selected OA news items noted during May 2010

May 31, 2010 at 11:52 pm · Filed under Open Access ·Tagged OA news

Låter forskare sig luras? (about the OMICS Publishing Group, in Swedish) [Google translation into English][May 29] http://bit.ly/9DM8to
I hacked the academy [The Book of Trogool] [May 28] http://bit.ly/cSMmh4
Thesis on publicly sharing biomedical research data [May 26] http://bit.ly/cVwKqi and http://bit.ly/bc6Fkk
How Science 2.0 and Open Access Really Work [May 26] http://bit.ly/cRNQc3
Molecular & Cellular Proteomics ups the ante by mandating raw-data deposition [May 24] http://bit.ly/c1KxrP
Persuading a community to deposit Open Data « petermr’s blog [May 24] http://bit.ly/aaipkF
Potential Conflict of Interest with Open Data Mandates [May 21] http://bit.ly/oaVSod
OGI Launches Fund to Support Open Access to Genomics Publications [May 19] http://bit.ly/9nPu4t
Canada’s Digital Economy Consultation: help vote up Open Access to Canadian Research [May 15] http://bit.ly/9kXLCd
On NSF data plans (re data-management) [May 11] http://bit.ly/bWbOq7
EDEM10 – Five Questions – Stevan Harnad (video) [May 11] http://bit.ly/9z3CBM and http://bit.ly/boNDy2
Effect Measure – “Open science, openly arrived at” [May 9] http://tinyurl.com/38amr64
Open Access Citation Advantage: An Annotated Bibliography [May 8] http://bit.ly/cFFhyg
BioMedCentral: Introducing the ‘Open Data Award’ in association with Microsoft [May 7] http://bit.ly/bCASJo
Oh, the Vanity – about hybrid OA and a suggested pro-industry ‘e-publication bias’ [May 6] http://bit.ly/dzlBXU
Your views on Open Access publishing are needed! [May 6] http://bit.ly/9JkjMA
Introduction to Scholarly Communications and Open Access (PDF, Apr 10, 2010) [May 5] http://bit.ly/ckpi6r
PLoS ONE: Editors, contents and goals [May 4] http://bit.ly/agJhSQ
Searching scientific literature in the 21st century [May 3] http://bit.ly/bt5eP7
In defence of author-pays business models [May 1] http://bit.ly/ccaEqC
ScholKitch post on PLoS (*much* discussion!) [May 1] http://j.mp/coVgi4 and http://ff.im/jsPDK and http://ff.im/jyjot
Open Access News, final post (but archive intact) [May 1] http://bit.ly/d3JSxz

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Selected OA news items noted during April 2010

May 2, 2010 at 5:42 pm · Filed under Open Access ·Tagged OA news

Concordia University Senate Resolution on Open Access (Approved April 16, 2010) [April 30] http://bit.ly/dbM76T
The Library of Congress and Twitter [April 30] http://bit.ly/9usW7a and http://bit.ly/dkIpME
Open Access Canada is up! [April 28] http://www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/41617.html
AgEcon Search (on differences between operating a subject repository & an institutional repository) [April 27] http://bit.ly/ajyMUJ
Does open-access publishing increase future citations of a study? [April 27] http://ff.im/jHoh3
Understanding how Twitter is used to widely spread Scientific Messages (pdf) [April 26] http://bit.ly/aSiCeu
Article-level Metrics for UKSG 2010 (by Peter Binfield – slides) [April 26] http://bit.ly/cFnTP1
OA Tracking Project via Tumblr [April 24] http://oatp.tumblr.com/
Ten Years of PubMed Central (video of presentation by David Lipman) [April 22] http://bit.ly/cC4AVe
Citation advantage a minor point in the list of reasons to prefer Open to Toll Access [April 19] http://bit.ly/cNT5Iu
Sharing Databases for Disease Research – WSJ.com [April 15] http://tinyurl.com/y99en7g
Anonymizing patient records for genomics (balance between patient privacy and data for research) [April 14] http://bit.ly/9W0Z8T
Journal of Biology has been fused with BMC Biology under the title BMC Biology [April 14] http://bit.ly/b1sNQt
Internet Linking is Analogous to Citation [April 13] http://bit.ly/9ebsBZ
New Cancer Stem Cell Real time News streaming app! [April 7] http://bit.ly/cU5bTD
Many Open Access (OA) journals don’t have Table of Contents RSS feeds, and they are therefore missing out a great deal [April 6] http://bit.ly/9ZkfWY
University Supports for Open Access: A Canadian National Survey [April 6] http://bit.ly/aX1JCH
Largest, free and searchable collection of scholarly journal Tables of Contents – JournalTOCs [April 5] http://www.journaltocs.hw.ac.uk/
Recommendations for independent scholarly publication of data sets [April 1] http://bit.ly/dcjJc6

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