Mary Ann Liebert offers free online access to Breastfeeding Medicine - August 4, 2008
Medical publisher Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., US, has announced complimentary online access to Breastfeeding Medicine in recognition of World Breastfeeding Week. The offer can be availed of till August 31, 2008 at www.liebertpub.com/bfm. A MEDLINE journal, Breastfeeding Medicine is the official publication… Read More
DINI multilingual develops German interface to offer information on OA policies - July 30, 2008
The German Initiative for Networked Information (DINI) has developed a German (and potentially multilingual) interface to the English SHERPA / RoMEO service to provide additional information on German publishers' open access (OA) policies. Together with the SHERPA / RoMEO team, DINI aims to build an international support structure for OA… Read More
Italy’s National Institute of Nuclear Physics signs Berlin Declaration on OA - July 29, 2008
National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN), Italy, has signed the Berlin Declaration on 'Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities' to help break down hurdles for accessing scientific knowledge. The declaration, launched in 2003, was created to sustain and encourage the free exchange of… Read More
Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine moves to BioMed Central - July 25, 2008
Open access publisher BioMed Central, US, has announced that the Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine (SJTREM) has moved to BioMed Central's open access publishing platform. SJTREM is the official journal of the Scandinavian Networking Group on Trauma and Emergency Management and is affiliated… Read More
OAD launches the ‘Bibliography of Open Access’ in MediaWiki format - July 23, 2008
The Open Access Directory (OAD) has announced the release of the Bibliography of Open Access, which is the work of OAD contributors. The bibliography is based on Charles Bailey's Open Access Bibliography: Liberating Scholarly Literature with E-Prints and Open Access Journals, which was published in 2005… Read More
APA reconsiders charge to meet NIH norms following criticism from OA community - July 22, 2008
The American Psychological Association (APA) is reportedly reconsidering its plans to charge authors to fulfil the open access (OA) mandate of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). APA had initially proposed to charge authors $2,500 per manuscript to deposit the final peer-reviewed manuscript in PubMed Central… Read More
BioMed Central launches new journal – BioData Mining - July 22, 2008
Open access publisher BioMed Central, US, has announced the launch of a new open access journal - BioData Mining. Dr Jesus Aguilar-Ruiz of the Pablo De Olavide University and Dr Jason H. Moore of the Dartmouth Medical School will serve as Editors-in-Chief of the journal. They… Read More
Australian universities join SCOAP3 to promote open access in particle physics research - July 9, 2008
Australia has joined SCOAP3 (Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics), an international consortium that aims to provide free access to major particle physics journals worldwide. Six of the Group of Eight universities in Australia have agreed to participate in the consortium. These include… Read More
Materials science journal STAM converts to no-fee open access model - July 8, 2008
The journal Science and Technology of Advanced Materials (STAM) has reportedly converted to a no-fee open access (OA) model with its January-March issue. The journal is being published by Japan's National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) in partnership with IOP Publishing. STAM, sponsored by NIMS, is… Read More
Open access can help India take scientific research forward, says OA proponent - July 7, 2008
Open access (OA) can help India make its scientific research widely accessible for greater impact at low costs, thus taking its research forward, according to Prof. Steven Harnad of the University of Quebec, Montreal and Southampton. Current gaps were making things tougher for researchers in India, he observed in his… Read More
