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Open Access: Unlimited Web Based Literature Searching

sennoma — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 10:10:00 -0500

misleading title -- actually a review of literature on whether OA articles are cited more than TA ones Tagged by sennoma under oa.numbers, oa, scientometics, bibliometrics,

The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics: Research Brief: Library savings from full flip to open access via article processing fees: about two-thirds savings

sennoma — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:09:00 -0400

Someone else who likes to have numbers to answer questions. Tagged by sennoma under oa.numbers, heathermorrison,

WHO | Open access: a giant leap towards bridging health inequities

sennoma — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 12:05:00 -0400

Studies have shown that access to published health research by the research communities in developing countries is no longer “fit for purpose”.2 As has been well documented, rising costs of subscriptions and permission barriers imposed by publishers have barred access to the extent that local health research and health care have been damaged through lack of information.3,4 For example, Yamey5 tells of a physician in southern Africa who could not afford full access to journals but based a decision to alter a perinatal HIV prevention programme on one single abstract. The full text article would have shown that the findings were not relevant to the country’s situation. With the advent of the internet there is little justification for continuing to create barriers to access. Richard Smith, as the former editor of the British Medical Journal, said, “Most research is publicly funded, and when the internet appeared it made no sense for research funders to allow publishers to profit from restricting access to their research”.6 This is true not only for publicly funded research but for private health charities around the world. As the Open Access Policy of the Wellcome Trust states, “We . . . support unrestricted access to the published output of research as a fundamental part of its charitable mission and a public benefit to be encouraged wherever possible”.7 Science is a collaborative process and openness is fundamental to knowledge advancement. Tagged by sennoma under subbiaharunachalam, lesliechan, oa, WHO, mangosteen, oa.numbers,

WHO | A key piece of the jigsaw for improving world health

sennoma — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 12:03:00 -0400

Impaired access to research information in health-related fields is not solely the preserve of developing countries but it is hugely exacerbated in poorer regions of the world. While these regions bear the brunt of the world’s health problems, only 10% of health research effort goes into these areas (referred to as the “10/90 gap”).1 If we are going to achieve what the World Conference on Science held by UNESCO and the International Council for Science in 1999 termed the true “orienting of scientific progress towards meeting the needs of humankind”, then we must improve the research effort on the health problems that afflict the greatest part of the world’s population. That cannot happen until research communication is optimized: at the turn of the new millennium more than half of research-based institutions in lower-income countries had no current subscriptions at all to international research journals.2 Tagged by sennoma under oa, almaswan, WHO, mangosteen, oa.numbers,

NIHMS Statistics

sennoma — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 01:18:00 -0400

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Submissions Jump Sharply Under New NIH Policy - Library Journal

sennoma — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 01:18:00 -0400

In the months since passage of the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) mandatory public access policy in late December of 2007, the number of submissions to the National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) PubMed Central (PMC) repository, where authors are now required to deposit their NIH-funded research papers, has risen significantly. According to NIH statistics, submissions to PMC began steadily rising in December 2007, soon after it became clear a mandatory policy would be adopted in 2008. By the first month following passage of the new policy, January 2008, monthly submissions to PMC hit an all-time high of 1255, and have continued to increase significantly every month so far this year. In April 2008, when the policy officially took effect, submissions spiked even more sharply, rising from 1852 total submissions in March, to 2,765 in April and 2,593 in May. The April/May 2008 figures represent well over double the number of submissions for the same months in 2007 (1,198 PMC submissions in April ’07; 948 in May ’07). Although official figures for June have not yet been posted, the NIH’s Dr. David Lipman told the LJ Academic Newswire the submission totals were higher than May. It’s still too early to compute compliance rates, Lipman noted, but the early returns suggest a stunning turnaround. “Looking at the increase in submissions and the dramatic increase in journals signing PMC Publisher Participation agreements,” Lipman suggested a “reasonable projection” would be a compliance rate “around 55-60 percent.” Adoption of the “mandatory” NIH policy was spurred by abysmal compliance rates under the NIH’s first public access policy, adopted in 2005, which, after considerable pushback from publishers opposed to a deposit mandate, was scaled back to a voluntary policy at the 11th hour. In February, 2006, NIH reported to congress that compliance rates under the voluntary policy lagged around four percent. SPARC executive director Heather Joseph told the LJ Academic Newswire she expected PMC deposits to remain strong, a Tagged by sennoma under oa.mandates, oa.numbers,

Analysis of data on scholarly journals publishing | RIN

sennoma — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 02:02:00 -0400

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OA-barometer 2009

sennoma — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:37:00 -0400

In 2007-2008 a research team at Hanken developed an emperical method to measure the total amount of peer reviewed articles published globally as well as their OA availability. In this project they will renew and further develop the study as well as carry out a regional study of the Nordic countries. The Nordic part of the study will answer the following questions: * What share of scientific articles published in the Nordic countries is available open access? * What portion of the output of Nordic scholars is available as open access? * The project will also construct a list of the between 500-1000 scholary journals that are published in the Nordic countries and check their total article output as well as which part is available open access. The project can also see what kind of impact the establishment of institutional repositories in the Nordic countries has on the open access availabelity of Nordic scholary output. The target results of the project is a precise measure of how large a share of the overall volume of scientific journal litterature is available openly. By repeating a study from 2008 it will be possible to see trends concerning a possible increase in OA. The results concerning the Nordic journals and their open access availability would be interesting information for all participants in the OA discussion. Hanken and Lund university library are commited to repeating the study in 2011. Tagged by sennoma under oa.numbers, bochristerbjoerk,

Hearing on: H.R. 6845, the "Fair Copyright in Research Works Act"

sennoma — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 02:08:00 -0400

This is the hearing where Zerhouni estimated the NIH support for publication charges at 80 to 100 million/year Tagged by sennoma under oa.money, oa.numbers, oa.mandates,

Web Access to Traditionally Published Journals

sennoma — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 05:13:00 -0400

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Entomological Society of America electronic publication

sennoma — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 05:13:00 -0400

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Rethinking Electronic Publishing: Innovatino in Communication Paradigms and Technologies; 13th Intl Conf on Electronic Publishing

sennoma — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:06:00 -0400

Connecting Readers with Open Access Resources: The CUFTS Free! Open Access Collections Group Building a Digital Library with Learning Materials Creation of an International Digital Library of Manuscripts: seamless access to data from heterogeneous resources (ENRICH Project) Exploring the costs and benefits of alternative publishing models A Journal on the Web: What We Are Not, What We Do Not Want Understanding how Students and Faculty REALLY use E-Books: The UK National E-Books Observatory A publishing system to extract and represent the knowledge content of scientific articles on Health Science in machine-processable format Self-Archiving in practice: What do the researchers say and is there any pain alleviation? Scoping Study on Issues Relating to Quality-Control Measures within the Scholarly Communication Process Overlay Publications: a functional overview of the concept The PROBADO-Framework: Content-Based Queries for non-textual Documents PEER: Publishing and the Ecology of European Research PLoS One: background, future development, and article-level metrics Targeted knowledge: interaction and rich user experience towards a scholarly communication that “lets” Economic sustainability during transition: the case of scholarly publishing Automated Support for a Collaborative System to Organize a Collection using Facets Experimenting with the Trial of a Research Data Audit: Some Preliminary Findings about Data Types, Access to Data and Factors for Long Term Preservation Scientific publications on Web 3.0 Integrating Online Publications and Scholarly Discourse in the Context of Digital Libraries Incorporating Semantics and Metadata as Part of the Article Authoring Process Metadata Usage Tendencies in Latin American Electronic Journals Building a Semantic Digital Library for the Municipality of Milan Rethinking Critical Editions of Fragmentary Texts by Ontologies Bibliometric factor maps for knowledge discovery in digital libraries Digital Futures: Tagged by sennoma under oa, oa.money, oa.numbers,

Ethox: Open Access And Sci Practice

sennoma — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 12:36:00 -0400

slide 17 has good graph of data deluge Tagged by sennoma under oa.numbers, oaos.talks, ericmeyer,

S&E Indicators 2008

sennoma — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 12:30:00 -0400

More good comparisons for the CPI/journal prices graph -- idea from UCOSC via Sukhdev Singh slideshare Tagged by sennoma under statistics, oa.numbers,

PLoS ONE : accelerating the publication of peer-reviewed science

sennoma — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 10:29:00 -0400

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Current Trends in Biomedical Publishing and Bioinformatics: Some thoughts on Open Access publishing

sennoma — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 10:39:00 -0400

I've bookmarked both reports, this is just to remind me to actually read them: "The JISC ‘Economic implications of alternative scholarly publishing models’ and the RIN ‘Activities, costs and funding flows in the scholarly communications system in the UK’ both set out to identify opportunities arising from the shifts towards online publishing and various open access business models." Tagged by sennoma under oa.money, oa.numbers, publishing.models, readthis,

As a result of the mandates

sennoma — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 07:49:00 -0400

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ALA | ALA Library Fact Sheets

sennoma — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 10:58:00 -0400

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OAN: Major new report on the economic implications of OA

sennoma — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 12:43:00 -0500

Major new report on the economic implications of OA Tagged by sennoma under oa.numbers, oa.money,

The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics: Wiley revenues increase 36% in 2008

sennoma — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 12:42:00 -0500

From the Wiley Annual Report 2008 - To Our Shareholders: Fiscal year 2008 was a transformative year, as reflected in Wiley’s record results. Revenue increased 36% over the previous year to $1.7 billion, up from $1 billion just two years ago. Tagged by sennoma under oa.numbers, publishing.models,