May

4

All H1N1 Related Articles Published in PNAS Freely Available Online

May 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Seen on Liblicense – All H1N1 (swine flu) related articles published in PNAS are now freely available online: In light of the current alert about H1N1 (swine flu) issued by the World Health Organization and the public health emergency declared by the United States government, PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences) has made [...]

May

5

Open Access Directory (OAD)

May 5, 2008 | 1 Comment

Press Release: Peter Suber and Robin Peek have launched the Open Access Directory (OAD), a wiki where the open access community can create and maintain simple factual lists about open access to science and scholarship. Suber, a Research Professor of Philosophy at Earlham College, and Peek, an Associate Professor of Library and Information Science at [...]

Jan

4

Open Access in 2007 According to Peter Suber

January 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Open Access in 2007 by Peter Suber on SPARC Open Access Newsletter, issue 117, January 2008. From the introduction: “The irrepressible progress of the open access movement means that every new year is richer than the last. At some point the thicket of new developments will make it impossible to write these annual reviews. [...]

Aug

22

OAIster: Opening the Archives

August 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment

OAIster. ‘OAIster is a union catalog of digital resources. We provide access to these digital resources by “harvesting” their descriptive metadata (records) using OAI-PMH (the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting). The Open Archives Initiative is not the same thing as the Open Access movement. Digital resources can range from an old-time advertisement of [...]

Aug

19

CTWatch Quarterly: Web 2.0 in Science

August 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Web 2.0 in Science, Timo Hannay, CTWatch Quarterly, Vol. 3, 2007. Excerpt: Perhaps the only thing on which everyone can agree about Web 2.0 is that it has become a potent buzzword. It provokes enthusiasm and cynicism in roughly equal measures, but as a label for an idea whose time has come, no one can [...]

Jun

11

Nature Launches 3 Open Access Websites

June 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Nature Editorial: Community service. ‘Introducing three free-access websites for research networking and outreach.
The mission statement that appeared in the second issue of Nature in 1869 and is reproduced every week on our printed table of contents may use archaically high-flown language, but it still applies. In essence, we exist to help scientists communicate with each [...]

Apr

19

BioMed’s PhysMath Central: Open Access for Physics and Mathematics Research

April 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment

PhysMath Central. ‘PhysMath Central is an independent publishing platform operated by BioMed Central committed to providing immediate open access to peer-reviewed physics and mathematics research. All original research articles published by, or in cooperation with, PhysMath Central are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately upon publication. PhysMath Central views open access to research as [...]

Mar

24

Science 2.0: Sharing and Collaboration

March 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment

The New Science of Sharing. ‘Companies such as Novartis and Intel are at the forefront of Science 2.0 by encouraging open systems of collaboration. Earlier this month, Swiss drugmaker Novartis did something rather unusual—and almost unheard of in the high-stakes, highly competitive world of Big Pharma. After investing millions trying to unlock the genetic basis [...]

Mar

23

The Croquet Consortium

March 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment

The Croquet Consortium – An Open Source Software Foundation. ‘Croquet is a powerful new open source software development environment for creating and deploying deeply collaborative multi-user online applications on multiple operating systems and devices. Derived from Squeak, it features a peer-based network architecture that supports communication, collaboration, resource sharing, and synchronous computation between multiple users [...]

Jan

28

Finding Chemical Information on the Internet by Rich Apodaca: A Must Read

January 28, 2007 | 2 Comments

How to Find Chemical Information on the Internet: Why Open Source, Open Access, and Open Data Matter. ‘The Web may be the most effective information-delivery platform ever created. Unfortunately, a variety of barriers, both technical and cultural, restrict the use of the Web for chemistry. In the last few years, three powerful forces for change [...]

Jan

26

European Comission Supports Open Access

January 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Brussels drafts guide for closed world of science journals. ‘The European Commission is preparing new guidelines for the €3 billion a year European scientific publishing industry that could put pressure on major firms such as Elsevier or Oxford University Press to give free access to articles based on EU-funded work.
The EU should consider establishing a [...]

Dec

12

BioMed Central Research Awards 2006

December 12, 2006 | Leave a Comment

BioMed Central Research Awards 2006. ‘The BioMed Central Research Awards recognize excellence in research that has been made universally accessible by open access publication in one of BioMed Central’s journals.Nominations for the BioMed Central Research Awards close on the 6 January 2007, so there is still time to submit your nomination. All research articles published [...]