Canadian, UK researchers tie up to launch website to share medical research - February 22, 2011
Medical researchers from Ottawa and the UK have reportedly issued a global call to their colleagues to open access to new studies that have undergone 'systematic reviews', which are wide-ranging summaries of all the existing research on a given health topic. The move is expected to… Read More
Browser add-on for Firefox, Chrome aims to ease attribution of open content - February 11, 2011
Open Attribute, a free add-on for Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome browsers, was recently launched as part of a Mozilla Drumbeat collaborative project. The project aims to make open content more accessible, according to a Library Journal article. According to Molly… Read More
SAGE announces rewards programme for journal reviewers - February 11, 2011
Academic publisher SAGE has announced a global reviewer rewards programme that provides those who review papers for its Journals with free electronic access to the entire list of SAGE journals. The programme, trialed in 2010 on a small number of titles, has now been rolled… Read More
Wiley launches new programme of Open Access journals - February 2, 2011
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, US, has announced the launch of Wiley Open Access, a new publishing programme of open access journals. The first journals will launch shortly, publishing primary peer-reviewed research in a range of broad-based subject disciplines in the life and biomedical sciences, including… Read More
APS launches new OA primary research journal – Physical Review X - January 24, 2011
The American Physical Society has announced the launch of Physical Review X (PRX), an online, open access, primary research journal for authors in all fields of physics. Jorge Pullin, Chair of the Horace C. Hearne, Jr. Institute for Theoretical Physics and professor in the Louisiana State… Read More
International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations joins Right to Research Coalition - January 21, 2011
The International Federation of Medical Students' Associations (IFMSA) recently announced its membership in the Right to Research Coalition. Right to Research Coalition is an international alliance of undergraduate and graduate student organisations that promotes a more open scholarly publishing system through advocacy… Read More
Medical publishers urged to continue free journal access to low income nations via HINARI - January 20, 2011
Richard Smith, a former editor of the BMJ, and Tracey Pérez Koehlmoos of the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, have argued that medical publishers must 'continue to provide free access to all of their journals in all of the 64 low-income countries signed up… Read More
Polish Academy of Sciences expands availability of research, adopts OA model for 21 journals - January 18, 2011
Committees and Departments of the Polish Academy of Science, a scholarly research institution in Poland, has announced its decision to further expand availability of research by publishing 21 of its journals in the Open Access model. Versita has been chosen the technology and publishing services provider… Read More
Springer denies having withdrawn free access to journals via HINARI programme - January 17, 2011
A recent issue of the British Medical Journal mentions STM publisher Springer as having withdrawn free access to health and biomedical online journals through the World Health Organization’s Health InterNetwork for Access to Research Initiative (HINARI) programme. HINARI is part of the Research4Life partnership between UN… Read More
BioMed Central launches ‘threaded publications’ initiatives - January 17, 2011
Open access science publisher BioMed Central, UK, has announced the launch of several ‘threaded publications’ initiatives to further encourage transparency in research. ‘Threaded publications’ use electronic publishing technology to link content related to a research study or clinical trial and will help scientists, readers and patients… Read More
