Thomson Scientific launches ScienceWatch.com - March 5, 2008
Information solutions provider Thomson Scientific, part of Thomson Corporation, US, has announced the launch of ScienceWatch.com, a free, open web resource for science metrics and analysis. ScienceWatch.com combines the latest Science Watch newsletter material and regularly updated data, analysis, interviews, and commentary that had been previously… Read More
AOSSM names Editors for its new multidisciplinary sports medicine journal - March 5, 2008
The Board of the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine's (AOSSM) Medical Publishing Group has announced the selections of Dr. Edward M. Wojtys, Dr. George J. Davies, Dr. Matthew Gammons and Dr. Riann Palmeri-Smith as the founding editors of its forthcoming journal Sports Health: A Multidisciplinary… Read More
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Traditional academic publishers support current open access repository principles, says report - March 4, 2008
The SURFfoundation has released the results of an inquiry into the copyright policies of traditional academic publishers. A group of forty seven traditional publishers, who do not currently allow Open Access, were assessed and it was found that these publishers are increasingly interested in allowing the… Read More
RPSGB launches new online library for registered pharmacists - March 4, 2008
The Library of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (RPSGB) has launched a new, free online library, myLibrary, for registered pharmacists. This is the latest step in the evolution of the RPSGB's Library from a print-based resource to a fully-fledged hybrid library, where equal emphasis… Read More
New OSI-supported OA source book - March 4, 2008
The Open Society Institute (OSI), a private operating and grantmaking foundation, has agreed a grant to develop an online Open Access (OA) source book called Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook (OASIS). The new online resource will provide practical steps towards implementing OA for research output. OASIS… Read More
