ACP’s new initiative to provide evidence-based recommendations for specific interventions for clinical problems - April 26, 2010
The American College of Physicians (ACP) has announced plans to provide physicians and patients with evidence-based recommendations for specific interventions for a variety of clinical problems. ACP’s High-Value, Cost-Conscious Care Initiative will assess benefits, harms, and costs of diagnostic tests and treatments for various diseases to… Read More
Concordia University passes landmark Senate Resolution on Open Access - April 23, 2010
The Concordia University has announced that its academic community has passed a landmark Senate Resolution on Open Access. The resolution encourages all of its faculty and students to make their peer-reviewed research and creative output freely accessible via the internet. Concordia claims to be the first… Read More
CMSS releases voluntary code for interactions with for-profit health companies - April 22, 2010
The Council of Medical Specialty Societies (CMSS) has announced the release of the CMSS Code for Interactions with Companies. The code seeks to provide detailed guidance to medical specialty societies on appropriate interactions with for-profit companies in the healthcare sector. The voluntary code is designed to… Read More
STM challenges JISC over validity of open access advocacy - April 19, 2010
The International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM), the Publishers Association (PA) and the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) have expressed concern about the validity of open access (OA) claims made by recent advocacy deriving from the UK Joint Information Systems… Read More
Public access lobbyists seeking support for passage of US bill - April 19, 2010
US Congress Representatives Doyle, Waxman, Wasserman-Schultz, Harper, Boucher and Rohrabacher recently introduced the Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA). The bill is expected to ensure free, timely, online access to the published results of research funded by 11 US federal agencies. All supporters of public access… Read More
Federal Research Public Access Act introduced in US House of Representatives - April 16, 2010
The Federal Research Public Access Act of 2010 (FRPAA) has reportedly been introduced in the US House of Representatives by Rep. Mike Doyle and other co-sponsors. The proposed bill seeks to build on the purported success of the first US mandate for public access to the published results of publicly… Read More
Regulator FCC has limited authority on web traffic, rules US court - April 8, 2010
A US federal appeals court recently ruled that, under current law, regulators have only limited power over web traffic. The decision is expected to allow Internet service companies to block or slow specific sites. Also, they can charge video sites like YouTube to deliver their content faster. The decision is… Read More
University of Pennsylvania forms Committee on Open Access Publishing - March 25, 2010
The University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia has announced the appointment of a Committee on Open Access Publishing, comprised of faculty and ex officio staff from across the University. The Committee, appointed by Provost Vincent Price and Senior Vice Provost for Research Steven J. Fluharty, is examining… Read More
Scholarly publishers confirm support for MIT’s open access policy - March 22, 2010
The faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has announced that a year after the faculty adopted a policy to open access to their scholarly articles, many scholarly publishers have confirmed their support. More than 850 articles have been added to the MIT Open Access… Read More
Elsevier announces new custom publication guidelines, sets new standards for publishing sponsored content - February 24, 2010
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that it will publicly share its internal custom publication guidelines. The global publisher seeks to provide scientific and medical communities, insight into a new and practical set of publishing standards for producing custom and sponsored publications. The new guidelines were… Read More
